Most Popular Posts
These ten posts are Productive Flourishing’s most popular posts, as measured by pageviews, comments, and submission to social media sites. Enjoy!
- How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive
- 15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Working Another Day
- How to Spread Teamthink Throughout Your Organization
- Demystifying the Creative Process
- 7 Ways to Stop The Internet From Making You Stupid
- The Schizophrenia of Americanism
- Do You Have An Idea Garden?
- A General Theory of Productivity
- Stop Shuffling and Start Creating
- To Embrace Greatness, Embrace Failure: 21 Tributes to Failure
Learning to look at your day by when you’re in the Flow can help you get more done with less effort. Use the Daily Productivity Heatmap to figure out when you’re working at your best!
Are you in the right line of work? Should you be doing something else? Ask yourself these 15 questions before you decide to work another day.
One of the most powerful ways to be an effective leader is to get the individuals in your organization to view themselves as part of a team rather than a loose collection of individuals.. Teamthink is powerful, and this post gives ideas for how to spread teamthink throughout your organization. Part of “The Elements of Leadership” Series.
Almost everyone has creative potential. What separates creatives from people who think they’re not creative is that the creatives have a grip on the creative process. It’s not mystical – there are four steps of creativity that we can all walk through to become more creative.
The Internet is making us stupid. It’s actually changing the way we think, and not for the better. But we don’t have to stand by and let our intelligence creep slide further and further towards that of a cockroach – and here are seven ways to keep the light on.
The Western way of life is riddled with tensions and inconsistencies. We say one thing, yet act another way. We have big dreams and hopes but act on small ideas. And once we get rid of the schizophrenia, others will think we’re crazy! Weird.
An idea garden is simply a place to put ideas to get them off your mind. A key habit is to review the garden, tend the ideas, and keep them growing without them throwing you off focus while you work.
There are enablers to productivity and detractors to productivity. This post describes these in very general ways.
Creative people have a tendency to shuffle from project to project, with the result that a lot of projects are indefinitely half-done. Doing this makes it harder to complete any given project because you’re always losing inertia and trying to build momentum. Rather than continue this trend, focus on pushing projects to done before you build momentum on new projects.
The only real way to embrace greatness is to get used to the idea of failing and becoming comfortable with the prospect. Twenty-one great people remark about the absolute necessity of embracing failure.
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