Want to attain productivity nirvana? Then you need a commitment to excellence…
I had the need to work on a Word document on a plane, from my iPad. I opened Word and…
I would like to share a great app that I’ve created that allows you to upload…
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop…
Why is there so much writing on personal productivity?
On the face of it, the concept of productivity should be simple: how to do consistently high quality work as efficiently as possible.
In The Weekly Review is an Operating System, I detailed the process I go through each week to capture any new open loops, clear my workspaces, and nail down the events and commitments for the week.
[Author’s note: This post is a chapter of my forthcoming book RESET: Building Purpose…
Twitter user Mad William Flint (@madwilliamflint)asked the following question to a handful of smart gents on Twitter.
It’s question I get all the time and in my head I’m always thinking, “No, no, no, no.”
I know that we have something in common speaking about email overload. We hate emails that pile up, emails that bury the important ones, emails in a long row that never ends.
In the movie “A Beautiful Mind”, there is a scene where John Nash visits the Pentagon to help the…
Is mindfulness merely a means to cope with the stress of modern living, or…
今天收到采實文化的贈書《辦到了日記》，這是一本看起來小巧卻頗有意涵的好書。我刻意放下手邊的工作，立刻開始閱讀，沒想到愈讀愈有意思，和作者之間的對話彷彿也獲得了回饋與共鳴。
Following a fitness program will help you become a better athlete, but you need more than exercise to reach your maximum potential. Researchers have found that meditation offers several benefits that can improve athletic performance. Once you…
Slack is a productivity tool for chatting with people about projects, topics, events…
It is very easy to say that you want to jump from 1 to 100, but what about the other 99 steps you need to take in order to reach the 100th?
Do these now.
Don’t you hate those lists that reduce the habits of successful people to habits that…
This year is coming down to an end and another year comes with another set of promises on what your next New Year’s resolutions are — it’s funny but the idea of starting over sounds alluring to the most of us. We want to kick off our bad habits, we want to get the…
Habits are hard to change… But today, having good online security practices is…
If you’ve read my productivity content you’ll know that I love a system, a process…
"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well…
Benjamin P. Hardy. This is an excellent article that gives us a good road map to follow. So much of what we do is factored in to what others are able to do or doing and this leaves us a false feeling of necessity. We feel that; “If (Joe) is able to do this project in only 12 days, then I should be able to do it in 10 days.” This is an excellent way…
Excellent. The secret to accomplishing these massive goals is to set smaller milestones. The smaller milestones you should estimate you have a 50/50 chance at actually achieving.
Then you break down these milestones into even shorter weekly goals. And then you create daily actions to reach those goals.
In our contemporary world, the working atmosphere has dramatically changed. Finding personal fulfillment through our work, aside from the upgraded snacks, has become challenging as never before. Working stress that can lead to burnout, has become the real…
I often hear the saying, in one for or another, “If you believe you can do something, you will do it. If you can’t, you won’t”
Recently, I’ve come to believe that there is something more primal, instinctual, impactful to getting things done.
I believe this simple (and short) exercise will produce significant gains in productivity… Create…
Ambitious Guilt is the worst. Stop the guilt for starting and not finishing things. It’s often about the journey not the end.
Few months ago I was upset with myself for not always accomplishing all that I set to do each…
Great stuff!
I got into software development and entrepreneurship with Mark Zuckerburg, Bill gates and Linus Torvalds in mind, while also paying close attention to Hacker News, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Lobste.rs and the rest. A year later, now I listen to Dotun Olowoporoku (Building The Future Podcasts), pay more attention to…
This is so true. It’s just a matter of perspective.
I like to call these foundational habits. They undergird all your other actions and habits.
Then you have situational habits which are specific to your midrange goals and milestones. Without those foundational habits, their much harder to stick.
This is absolutely true. It makes since, because if you don’t think you have control, you don’t act to steer your own ship. You let others steer it for you.
Lets Call It A: “Video Collage”.
I relate to this a lot. When I am lifting weights or walking to class, I have found that I feel better and am more productive and performance increases when I am doing something physical. Whereas, when I am doing homework or performing some task where I have to really think hard about what I am doing, it is a bad idea to listen to music with words as…
We have all heard it before. If you really want something, use your willpower to achieve it! We…
Fun Fact: I have never made a New Year’s resolution. At least not one that I actually remember making. It’s not that I have anything against the idea (I do set goals, people!) but after working in gyms during high school and college, I’ve…
Every year it is the same thing.
We all have stories.
Stories of how we got a scar, came into our line of work, got married, and chose our home and so on.
We tell these stories to parents, friends, supervisors and lovers.
It’s worth mentioning SquidHub in this list as well (www.squidhub.com). It’s a simple and intuitive productivity tool - built for startups.
You may think of it as a mash-up of some of the key elements from Asana, Wunderlist, Todoist, Google Drive, a team messenger (like WhatsApp or Slack) and a calendar. Just in a single…
Most of the people in today’s busy world tend to keep an alarm clock handy, to help…
Very inspiring read James. We learn so much from people close to us not by direct preaching but by the actions they show. I’m little bit teary eyed because I can’t imagine the loss. I am thousands of miles away from my father but his influence in my life will always be evident. You carefully weaved your experiences together to craft a story that has…
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even…
Compared to employee engagement, most KPIs are a cinch to track. Want to know your…
There are a lot of demands on your time, it’s easy to get lost with endless choices on what to focus on. With…
I’ve spent a lot of time behind screens.
Challenging people play a couple of important roles in our lives. Sometimes they can act as a type of mirror. They reflect back to us our good qualities and our bad qualities. Other times they can act like a catalyst, helping us to transform in unexpected directions.
I went to the mall…yep, on Black Friday.
I wasn’t shopping. I was actually just running into get New York Fries and some veggies sushi rolls with my little girls who didn’t have school today en route to the farm where we purchase our meat.
When you invite employees to your organization you need to give them a specific role. They can be either Staff, Managers or Admins.
“The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify…
Thanks to Alexa, I have been waking up better and better each day. Today I even woke up on…
Founding a business is hard. Anybody who has done this even once can tell you. As I discussed in…
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what have i done this morning?
nothing much really. i’ve squandered away three hours!
i was on the phone for an hour with Daeyoung. half of the time i spent complaining, it feels like.
where am i going with this rhetoric? where am i headed?
Ever wake up and get ready for work and feel like everything is happening just how you want it too? It seems…
5 Astuces pour Faire le Vide chez Soi : Ce n’est pas nouveau, un lieu de vie encombré est…
Love this! You got it!
555 is a good number.
Longform is great too, but can’t it just be multiple posts?
I mean, it didn’t take long to convince you here did it? Now you can go do something else.
Nitesh, great idea! Writing in community is a great accountability too. Thanks for following along!
Today is the last day of 2017 and we’re one month away from the new year. Let’s get straight…
Thank you Zak. I needed that.
The day that I failed was a first for me. As someone who has been terrified of failure for 17 years, it should have been a horrid, rainy, sad day. But because of you, it was happy…
Throughout my time in this class during first semester, I feel that my approach to academics has changed significantly. Throughout the…
