One of my bosses has a habit of telling me to remind him about something in a few days. Rather than ranting about why I have to be his psychic RAM or […]
Check Out My Interview on She-Power
Kelly from SHE-POWER was awesome enough to interview me and then still put my answers up on her blog. She asked tough questions, and I made it tougher for her by giving […]
A Parable on Natural Beauty
Two trees sat in the forest one cool summer day. The pine looked at the oak and said: “All these years we’ve grown together and I’ve always been envious of you. Every […]
Reader Question Answered: Being Productive vs. Writing About Productivity
A couple of weeks ago, I was having lunch with Kelly from the Honeycomb and we were talking about productivity, planners, and life, in general. She later emailed me with a question […]
Review: Todoodlist – Crazy Name, Sound Ideas
I have to admit – for the first few months that I saw Todoodlist on other blogs, I thought it was “Todoodlelist.” Under either version, it’s a crazy name. Underlying that crazy […]
ToDo Lists, Technology, and Simplicity
I’m going to say something obvious and try to make it sound profound: technology changes the way we approach our work. This realization became salient yesterday as I was thinking about Andre’s […]
How to Write Effective To-Do Lists
I’ve been writing a lot recently about taming your to-do lists. My focus has been on learning how to do less, but there’s another important way to go about taming your to-do […]
The Next Phase For Productive Flourishing
This is another “making of” posts, so if you don’t like such things, you probably won’t care much for this one. This one is considerably less melancholy than the last one I […]
Know Thyself and Become More Productive
How productive have you been today? There are many ways you can answer that question – but there are two different perspectives to think about when you do. One perspective depends on […]
Podcast: Getting Rid of Shoes and Commitments
[display_podcast] Summary: The rules for getting rid of too much stuff apply equally as well to trimming down your todo and commitment lists. Set a limit of what you can do, and […]
Are You at Home or Are You Merely Physically Present?
If you work from your home or would like to work from home and have a family (your partner counts as family if you don’t have kids!), stop skimming, sit up, and […]
Screencast: Why Life Choices Are So Damn Hard to Make
Summary: Life choices are so hard to make because there’s a Gap between important questions and their answers are filled with things that can’t be quantified. To answer important life questions, you […]
Podcast: The Zen of a Messy Desk
[display_podcast] Summary: Are you struggling to keep your desk clean because having a clean desk makes you happy or because you think you should have a clean desk? Is the simplicity of […]
When Selling Gets in the Way of Sharing
There has historically been a bias against money-makers among intellectuals. Being an academic, I inherited this bias without really thinking about it. It’s only recently that I began thinking about it again […]
7 Ways to Stop The Internet From Making You Stupid
That’s right, folks — the Internet is making us stupid. It’s actually changing the way we think, and not for the better. Sure, anecdotal evidence is somewhat sketchy, but I’m confident many of […]
4 Ways to Be an Effective Leader
This post is part of the Elements of Leadership series. In our last installment of this series, we discussed setting the vision for your team and developing SOPs. Remember, your vision and SOPs […]
Share Your Vision and Standardize Procedures For Effective Leadership
Knowing your team is critical if you are to lead them, but knowing what you want them to do is just as paramount. Your job as the leader of your team is […]
Using Paper to Scaffold Your Productive Motion
I’ve read two great posts this week that I’m going to tie together with some other thoughts I’ve been having. Thus, I’m violating the “one post, one topic” blogging wisdom – but […]