Productivity

Clear the Deck Before You Deck the Halls

Managing yourself, your business, and the holidays can be a tricky balancing act. There’s only so much of you at the same time that there are a lot of places you need to be. With all this going on, I’ve got a challenge for you: find the 1-3 projects that would feel the best to [...]

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Your Wheelhouse (In or Out of your Inbox)

I’ve used Email Triage many times since I bought it to cope with email overwhelm, before I was working directly with Productive Flourishing. On a practical basis, it’s been a life saver. In addition to the practical aspect, however, it helped me discover several ways of dealing with the emotional aspect of email processing, including [...]

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How to Avoid Motivating Yourself to an Early Grave

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mike Bundrant of the iNLP Center. During my high stress years as an executive in corporate America, my least favorite part of the day was hearing the alarm clock go off in the morning. Getting up to face a new day of tough work challenges and even tougher [...]

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Adding to the Heap Won’t Help You Work Through It

If you’ve already got too much to do, adding more to the heap won’t help you work through the heap. This is obvious at a conceptual level. Yet, in our daily practices, we often continue to take more on than we can do without even considering the heap we already have. There are really only [...]

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Show Up In A Different Way

We know that long-term success requires showing up, day in and day out. What we often don’t think about is that there are two kinds of showing up. Let’s call them Level 1 showing up and Level 2 showing up. Level 1 showing up is showing up, going through the motions, and tracking your time [...]

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Are They Actually Doing Your Ecourse?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. Several times in the past few months, I received notes from my customers that said something like this: “I love your course, but any suggestions on how to make time and space for it? I’m super busy and I’m struggling with [...]

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Build From the Red Line, Not The Deadline

Imagine that during a normal week, you set goals and deadlines that assume you’ll be able to do, say, 10 units of creative work. And that, during a normal week, you actually get 4 units of creative work done. Imagine that during light weeks, you set goals and deadlines that you’ll be able to do, [...]

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Get More Done By Limiting White Space

An aside from Dan Ariely’s latest piece in Wired got me thinking. Here’s a quick excerpt: Think how differently we’d interact with our calendars if the default was for time slots not to be empty—if, instead, they were prepopulated with tasks like thinking, writing, and planning. We’d be far less likely to neglect the opportunity [...]

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Soft Costs Are Real Costs

People will spend an inordinate amount of time to save a few dollars. There’s often a lightbulb moment that happens when you ask them to calculate their time-dollar value. Take a second to think about it. If you spend 3 hours avoiding paying $12 for something – or researching whether you should – yes, you’ve [...]

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