Productivity

What 4,300 hours of meditation has taught me

I started meditating consistently in the summer of 2001. I had just finished…

The Power of Honoring Your Commitments

Do you ever say you’re going to do something and then “I’ll do it later” becomes never…

How To Create Your Miracle Morning In 1 Minute

“Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams. Don’t think…

The Toyota Method: A Shortcut For Identifying And Solving Your Problems

My Time Is Just As Valuable As Yours

Which Is Why We Need Fewer Meetings

Words — The Most Powerful Force Available To Humanity.

7 Podcasts for the Productivity Nerds of the World

The ultimate shortlist for self-improvement lovers

The Goal Setting Template for a High-Output Life

“If you work hard and think creatively, you can have just about anything…

Life Design: Put Yourself In A Position To Do Great Things

5am Mornings

How do you like to be challenged?

When I Am Suffocating, I Do Two Things

A Path to Digging Out

5 Applications to Ensure you Never Procrastinate Again

How to stop procrastinating with this one simple technique [infographic]

追求效率的人會怎麼對發票

介紹幾個高效率對發票的方法，每個方法都對應到一個提高生產力的原則。

How to cure Continuous Partial Attention: Disabling Email Notification Tips

One of the things I’m most amazed about is when I see people working on their computer, tablet, or smartphone and I hear a little sound come up that indicates an interruption. This interruption…

Ruthless Optimization, Part 3: How we use Slack, Zapier, and Dropbox to automate and optimize Zengineering Podcast…

13 years* of cumulative effort saved for design community in 9 weeks

Made world a better place with…

My Love for Writing Was Not Enough…

I’ve loved to write since I was 10 years old.

Why We’ve Seen a 5-Fold Increase in Procrastination since 1973, The Somewhat Sad Story of My Online Gaming Addiction…

How to Do What You Don’t Want to Do

I’ll ask the obvious question first: Why would you want to do what you don’t want to do? Why even…

How To Turn Your Wish, Into A Goal, Into Reality

The Best Tips for Balancing Work and Family

Do you know what busy parents hate?

Excellent advice. I liked the point about clothes. I have always liked good clothes. Savile row when I could afford it. I was brought up with manners make the man. This probably cost me a lot of money as I turned down meetings with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as friends informed me they had no manners.

How habit building helps Jeff Bezos run efficient business meetings

Remote Work — On [trying] to not work always.

When people find out that I work remotely, the most common question they ask is:

6 Effective Time Management Hacks for Your Home Business

Alexander Graham Bell’s Secret to Greater Productivity

Alexander Graham Bell possessed one of the most fertile and brilliant minds in modern history. Though he is famous for inventing the telephone, he also developed or helped develop a photophone (which wirelessly communicated sound on a…

How To Wake Up Early and Conquer the Day | [#project20nine on WordPress.com]

“Discipline equals freedom”

Jocko Willink

I wake up at 5am almost every day. Whenever this comes up in conversation I am always aked ‘Why do you…

Make Your To-Do List More Fun With ‘Temptation Bundling’

21 Incredibly Simple Ways to Increase Your Energy, Focus, and Productivity in 30 Days or Less

Most of you reading this have so many commitments, projects, and problems in your life that it probably feels that there are never enough hours in the day.

Art, Marriage, and Playing By the Rules

Or: Fence Me In

Introducing instant file-sharing feature in ProofHub chat

Use These 5 Key Disciplines to Drive Sales Success

If you don’t own your day, your day will own you.

ThinkWeek #3 — Day 1

This is the first day of my third Bill-Gates-inspired “Think Week”.

What’s a “ThinkWeek”?

The Workplace is Changing — It’s Time to Recruit DAESK.

I get up at 4 AM now and my most productive time is the two hours before I leave for work.

5 tools little-known in the office environment, but widely used in IT

Most large companies have a fairly limited range of tools that are officially in used in house. Obviously you can run a company using only Microsoft applications stack, but even running a survey among…

So true. It’s effective for a lot of reasons. You save time by sorting what you will do. You remove resistance to effective action, which can be a killer to focus. It also lets your brain ruminate over it while you sleep.

4 Crucial Insights That Will Increase Your Productivity Today

The research industry has destroyed research and innovation

The Amazing Value of Knowing You Suck

What are you doing that you are NO GOOD at?

5 THINGS I LEARNT FROM 1 WEEK USING THE BEST SELF JOURNAL

StartupSouth3: Best event I ever attended yet

While this may sound like a hype — as I won the pitch event and was crowned…

How To Track All Your Habits For Life With Just A Minute Every Day

Craving a mindful lifestyle? Then…

Lumps of source code

Keep your code base as tidy as your appartment!

One Trick to Increase Positivity

Words are more important than you think. It’s not unusual to hear the casual “I shouldn’t eat that” or…

My phone sucks, and it’s one of the best things that’s happened this year

I’m right there with you. I live in Hawaii, and I do like the view. But I also like the solitude of my own thoughts.

That said, there is something for development the strength of will to live in your thoughts regardless of the surroundings.

Don’t mistake stress for an existential crisis

November 13, 2017

This may seem obvious for many, but for me, I never could handle the difference between the two. Any and all stress was an immediate existential crisis. What I mean by existential crisis is, you blame the…

How Listening to “Focus Music” Can Help Improve Your Productivity at Work

L’importance de votre espace de travail pour votre productivité

What do you think Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, does every morning when he wakes up?

How to switch from busy to effective

How do you flip the switch when you are overwhelmed and anxious with way too many things to do…

5 strategies to help distributed teams work better together

Spreading Yourself (Myself) Too Thin With Creative

Too many channels, not enough creative energy?

Lately, I’ve started posting a lot more to my YouTube channel and streaming more to my Twitch channel. This is reflected in those creative…

5 Ways to Make Tomorrow Better, Today

There is an African Proverb that says, “Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

New Year, New Me…

Sike! I’m unconvinced by New Year’s Resolutions.

Begin To Declutter Your Life

We all want to be successful in life. Everyone has a field or a goal they are aiming for. I have realized…

Great piece, Kara! Out of curiosity, I recently took a look at the “Battery Usage” on my iPhone and discovered that I was spending WAY more time on Social Media than I thought I was. It was a good reality check as to why I’m not creating the amount of work I have set out to.

How do you break up the day for a serious study routine day after day?

You could set up what’s called a Seinfeld calendar.

Yes, it comes from the comedian, Jerry Seinfeld. It’s a trick he used to help his motivation to work on his comedy every day.

The best method to write more

Or your way to procrastination

When I wanted to start writing, I spent a lot of time searching for information like: the best application to use, the best time to write, if I should write daily, etc. I wanted (and tried) anything…

The 3 different types of Performance Tasks & why you need them all

“You only live once, but if you do…

Are you tired? Do not rest, go do something you love.

The Opportunity-Overwhelm Border

Mindfulness helps us shift our relationship to both opportunity and…

Twitter’s Expansion, Driverless Cars And More On This Week’s CTRL ALT Delete Segment On CHOM 97.7 FM

with so many things screaming at us for attention, 
it starts to look like everything is important, 
or that everything is of equal importance, and that we should pay attention to…

Why you should hire a Virtual Assistant?

If your day is over-occupied and you feel that the number of hours is inadequate for you…

Starting vs. continuing

If you type “Start a business” into Amazon, you’ll see 43,833 book results. That’s a lot of books telling you how to start a business. If you then search “Run a business”, you’ll see 32,619 books. That’s still a lot, but it’s ten thousand less than the results for starting a business…

Find Your Motivation

So You Have A Goal And Can’t Seem To Stay On Track?

10 Ways to Simplify Your Work/Life

This piece was written by one of our amazing team members here at Development & Leadership…

How To Stay Into Your Positive Energy — All Day Long

Git Er Done?

What’s your success rate?
What are you accomplishing?
Are you getting things done?
Things that really matter?
Or, when it comes to…

Why Is Email Killing Our Productivity? — Blog

The surface answer? It’s disorganized and disruptive.

How to save what you find online

Unfortunately, while the Web has given a broad platform for spirited public debate and discussion, the information that is generated is always left in perpetuity and is sometimes intentionally deleted to eliminate embarrassment for a party involved. Therefore, it is a…

Reasons to Get Out of Bed

I feared that people may not care or disagree or maybe even perceive what I am conveying as something different…

What I Learned About Writing and Myself In 30 Days

Tom, excellent and everyone reading…listen intently. I too have done nothing but research in the past 3yrs.+ except 2016 I focused more on my health because I need to be able to put the energy into my blogging & my business I’m pulling together. You see I’ve been dealing with chronic spinal pain. But I have dreams & visions, so if I’m going to…

I have listened to at least one audible book a month over the last 24 months. 
Here is my list of books that are good for Design or Human Influence.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

Talent is Overrated

The Art of Seduction

Pitch Anything

Big Magic

New Employee Surveillance Schemes are Taking Micromanagement to the Next Level

Eat that frog!

Journey to Less Shittiness (week 7)

So basically ditto last week, I’ve been undisciplined on waking up and getting my cycles…

150KM/W → EZ

Monday. First day.

My current average cycling distance per week is 15 km. That is something i want to improve on. I have set up a goal of riding 150 kilometers a week, and doing it EZ. (that means easy, if you’re cool)

Becoming an Expert on Yourself

I almost dove in and began munching on all of the content here on Medium before I settled down to write…

Budget Your Time

Make EVERY day Effective and Efficient

Successful Leaders Don’t Marginalize Margin!

• Try to be Unique in all the way,have believe in yourself.

Being Selective in your own battles/obstacles and Have your own decision in your life, don’t…

Bad Habits in College That Need to be thrashed into Waste Bin Right Now

A Continuous Learning Experience — Learning How To Code

Writing my first blogpost…

This post is intended to capture my personal learning experience on the slow and often lonesome road to solo web based learning to code. I will document my journey in hopes of one…

A harmonious workplace

One of the challenges that face new entrepreneurs is creating a space that is tranquil and high performing at the same…

I am quite intrigued by this concept. I have long felt that I am slow at doing things, even though thorough. I will read and re-read your article to see what clicks. Thank you :-).

Simple S.A.V.E.R.S — Starting My Day Simply

Some days I’m not going to want to write, and when I do it will be ultra short and…

Dear Joshua,

I think you may like this article! Great minds think…

This is a type of deliberate practice. Love it!

3 effective ways to prepare for ‘mental marathons’ and reduce your stress levels in the process

An interesting post. What we call as luck and ill- luck are convenient myths created by us to make sense of successes and failures. So there is nothing called luck . It is nothing but preparation meeting opportunity.

Luck is not accidental, it can be cultivated by tweaking some of our mental attributes and cultivating…

News Flash: You Procrastinate!

Breaking News just in: you procrastinate. But that’s ok. We all do. It’s just a matter of how often you do it and how much it’s holding you back.

Man, these days in particular, with the internet and social media, it’s actually easier than ever to…

Agile Implementation Problems?

So, your Agile coach told you, that once you implement Agile, the team productivity will go through the roof, but you’re struggling to see the result?
Maybe it’s taking a little longer than expected to get there, or maybe the environment you’ve created does not fit the new…

How not to lose your mind in a crazy day — 6 easy hacks

Sometimes life is overwhelming: things happen fast, unexpectedly, and you lack time for all the things you have to do. And there are not enough hours in the day and not enough days in a week. It seems that no matter how much you try…

I think this is the key point what eventually decides direction of one’s growth. Every one works when it’s time for work or office. What makes difference is what you do with your spare time.

What advertising can learn about diversity from June Sarpong

Escapism: Is it Self-Care?

You finally get the day off. A day free from assignments, work, and the alarm clock. You plop onto your bed and…

Hide yourself

Hi,

Over the last ten years many companies have moved from offices to open plan, and now from open plan to…

USEFUL

much needed post now when I’m tackling many projects and things in the same time

Freelance Writer Uses FlexiSpot’s ClassicRiser to Get 10,000 Steps a Day

Nothing is original.