Routines

Get Some Pomodoro Power

Are you one of those people who takes a look at the projects you currently have in progress and wonder how on earth you are going to work your way through them? The amount of work that can be completed in that Pomodoro is quite staggering, especially the first time you complete one.

Choose Your Conventions Wisely

Conventions are all around us. Conventions will guide our actions and rather than not choose any conventions, we can choose conventions to guide us in the right direction. Good conventions will eliminate a choice and bring focus to one thing.

How Preparing For Vacation Can Lead To A Proactive Life

My Small Sabbaticals set the tone for all of these things initially, but this vacation preparation – knowing I’ll be away for two weeks – took everything to a whole new level. And it’s a level I plan to stay at until I move ahead even further.

How I Use A Paper Fortune Teller To Decide My Next Project

My daughter and her friends use them at school to tell each others’ fortunes. My son came home from pre-school with one as well. And it got me thinking: “What if I used a paper fortune teller to help me choose my next project?” So I did. And the results were exactly what I hoped they would be.

A Step-by-Step System to Higher Productivity

The following is a guest post by Greg Hickman. Greg is a blogger and podcaster that teaches people how to build a plan to leave their corporate jobs and work on their own terms. He shares his journey by leveraging his mobile marketing experience through a successful blog and podcast in his area of expertise,

The 3 Things Seinfeld Does That I’ve Built Into My Own Workflow

I’ve made no secret of the fact that I used to work in comedy. Sure, it was a fledgling career at best, having performed improv and sketch comedy sporadically at venues in a variety of places over a period of only a few years, but comedy is still in my blood…and it always will be.

A Productive Life: Collect, Organize, Review And Eliminate

The following is the third and final post in a series on leading a productive life by Bojan Dordevic. Bojan is an Internet marketing professional with a passion for all things productive, and is the co-founder of Alpha Efficiency Magazine (I make an appearance in the second of issue of said publication). You can invite