Most Popular Posts

The following ten posts are Productive Flourishing’s most popular posts, as measured by pageviews, comments, and submission to social media sites. Enjoy!

  1. How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive
  2. Sometimes your productivity is higher than others, but you’ll notice some daily trends in your productivity. This post discusses productivity levels and includes free tools to help you track your productivity.

  3. A General Theory of Productivity
  4. There are enablers to productivity and detractors to productivity. This post describes these in very general ways.

  5. The Triple Filters Test
  6. Is it true, good, or useful? Asking these questions about any bit of information you want to spread, create, or seek will filter out a lot of information that just not worth the time.

  7. The Daily Productivity Planner
  8. The Daily Productivity Planner is another free aid to help you plan your day, not by time, but by productive capacity. This is a follow-up to the Daily Productivity Heatmap.

  9. 21 Ways to Quickly Short-Circuit A Funk
  10. Sometimes we wake up feeling down. This post gives twenty-one ways to quickly get back up and on with your day.

  11. How to Identify and Remove the 4 Different Types of Leeches
  12. Real leeches drain blood from their hosts, but their not nearly as bad as the human leeches that drain emotional energy, productivity, and money from their hosts. This series discusses ways to rid yourself of all of the different types of leeches.

  13. R.A.F.T.: Managing Email Rather than Letting Email Manage You
  14. Read, Act, File, or Trash - those are the four basic actions to take to manage email. This post gives tips on how to do these actions.

  15. The 3 Key Ideas from Aristotle That Will Help You Flourish
  16. This post is the post that launched the reconceptualization of this blog. Aristotle is arguably the first great life coach, and his three key ideas will help you flourish.

  17. 12 Ways to Practice Courage
  18. Courage is one of the virtues listed in Aristotle’s catalog of the virtues. This is the start of a series aimed at becoming more virtuous through practice.

  19. Time to Write: Why You Should Be Unreasonable
  20. Many people think creativity needs free room to roam, when in fact creativity needs structure.