Distractions

Flee or Grab: How Do You React to New Technology?

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Luke. Think back twelve years: 1999, the end of the last century. What did your life look like then? I’m guessing it was pretty different from your life today. In 1999, I was fourteen. We’d had dial-up internet at home for a year or so, a [...]

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The Perfect Workspace For Doing Your Epic Work

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Cath Duncan from Agile Living and The Bottom-line Bookclub. So you’ve just started your creative or coaching business and you’re really excited and enthusiastic. It’s now your own business and you’ve got complete freedom to decide where and when and how you work, and of course you [...]

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Use The Two-Tab Rule To Stay Focused

How many tabbed windows do you have open right now? Can you remember what all those tabbed windows are about? In the early days of browsers, a perennial and annoying problem was only being able to have one window open at a time. Now, all major browsers give you the capability of opening windows in [...]

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Screencast: How Concentrate Helps You Focus and Interrupt Habits

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you might have to click through to see the video.] In a previous post, I talked about the application Concentrate and how it’s great at helping you interrupt the counter-productive habits you’ve formed. In today’s screencast, I show you how this works and how easy it is [...]

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The Key To Consistent Creativity and Productivity

How long can you concentrate and focus on one thing before your energy and attention begins to falter? How long does it take you to engage in a particular thing to make the effort of engagement worth it? The answers to those two questions make up (what I’m calling) your engagement threshold, and figuring out [...]

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How to Have A Fun Workspace Dash

Have you been needing to clean your workspace but can’t work through the resistance? This post is for you. Implementing the ideas from this post will probably take you about 30 minutes (including reading this post), but it’ll be time well-spent. I’m channeling Merlin Mann, Pam Slim, and Jen Hofmann for this post, so this [...]

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Inbox Zero Is Overrated

How many clothes are in your hamper right now? Are you desperately trying to make sure that not a single dirty sock is sitting in there? Unless you’re OCD or running low on underwear, you’re probably not too concerned about the clothes sitting unattended in your hamper – I’d have very little traction advocating a [...]

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Concentration Made Easy

Have you ever checked email without meaning to? Or found yourself on Twitter without intending to be there? That happens to me once in a while occasionally far too often, too. What I came to realize was that, as frustrating as it was, it was just a series of habits and reflexes at work. I [...]

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Stop Checking Email!

Odds are, if you’re reading this, you’ve probably checked your email a few times today. And I have a couple of questions for you: Why are you checking your email? What’s in there that will really make a difference to what you’re doing for the day? Take a second to think about your answers. If [...]

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