I’ve been re-reading Tony Schwartz’s book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, and this guest post by Robyn Adams definitely speaks to a major theme in the book: the power of sleep. Robyn has learned to simplify life and increase productivity so she can enjoy life to the fullest. Her blog Living the Simple Life […]
The following is a guest post by Alina Vrabie. Alina is a content creator at Sandglaz, where she writes about productivity, collaboration and work culture. She is always on the search for better lifehacks to simplify her and others’ lives. Her personal motto: “If it can be dreamed, it can be done.” Blogging can be
Using The Strikethrough System allows you to add meaning and value to your captured items through the use of contexts at the time of capture — a time when it’s freshest in your mind. That’s more than what a simple to-do list offers, and that’s why I use it every single day.
This isn’t new advice, but it definitely needs reinforcing from time to time. Not only do you need to close off your day before going to bed, you need to begin the next one. The key to doing that without having tomorrow weigh on your mind as you try to sleep is to begin the
There’s a task funnel I’ve been using more and more – something I call The Productivity Path – and it has proven to remove quite a bit of friction from my work life and life outside of work. My particular path is one that those who have invested in iOS and OS X devices can
Last night we recorded an upcoming episode of Mikes on Mics with Mike Rohde, author of Sketchnotes. I’m not going to spoil all of what we talked about – the episode will be available for you to listen to soon enough – but I am going to share with you how I use a form
Despite the fact that I do use several apps in my productivity workflow, I have a tendency to use paper a lot as well. As a matter of fact, paper is often my first method of capture for a variety of reasons, such as: It doesn’t require recharging, so it never runs low on juice.
If you ever find yourself stuck and unclear of where you are and where you’re going, do the following to get unstuck and get moving again — in your right direction: Find some paper. The bigger, the better. Write out what you are doing, who you are doing it for, and why you are doing
I’m going to spend the bulk of this weekend doing some much-needed “rejigging” of my apps. Next week I’ll be writing a post per day that goes into the “How I…” aspects that I’ve yet to cover here. Why am I getting around to this now? Well, the first few weeks of the year have
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