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Planning
How to Focus on What’s Most Important
Recently I joined my friend Eric Zimmer on his podcast, The One You Feed, to discuss how to focus our lives on what’s most important to us, and what blocks us from […]
5 Questions to Reflect on Your Summer
I’m back after some unplugged few weeks off and I’m happy to say that Angela and I finally unlocked how to have a great staycation. It’s been an elusive endeavor as a […]
June Planning Tips: Tactics to Overcome Your Overcommitment Habit
There tends to be a point in the year, often arriving around June, where we have too many ideas, too many commitments, and we’ve filled up our five project slots for every […]
Don’t Confuse the Project with the Result
One of my executive coaching clients asked for some guidance recently to keep her company’s OKR (Objectives and Key Results) initiative from going stale. Our work together had started with an OKR […]
May 2022 Planning Tips: Clear the Decks for Summer
May has always felt like a month of transitions for me. Growing up in Michigan, it was the first month we were pretty sure winter wouldn’t dump snow one last time in […]
April 2022 Planning Tips: How Do You Task on the Daily?
Even though the week is still my preferred planning horizon for getting stuff done, since we released Momentum in beta, the daily planner is growing on me. As I planned my Monday, […]
March 2022 Planning Tips: Remember Why You Started
If you were to approach most people and ask what specific action would bring them closer to their goals, my sense is most would have a ready answer. The steps required to […]
February Planning Tips: How to Plan in Uncertain and Complex Times
Many of us may be wondering right now: where did the last few weeks go and how did we get here? It seems as if we were just setting our goals and […]
An Introduction to Productivity at Productive Flourishing
As you might guess by our name, we know a thing or two about productivity. So much so that we have tons and tons of resources about productivity, planning, time management, and […]
Momentum Kickstarter Is Live Today
Our Kickstarter campaign for Momentum – the planner app that matches how and when you work – is now live. Be sure to check out our Kickstarter page and back the campaign […]
January 2022 Planning Tips: Leading Off the Year Strong
We are in that quintessential moment in time where we all seem to be stepping back and evaluating priorities, all in the hopes to move forward with refreshed goals outlined for the […]
December 2021 Planning Tips: This Year, Resolve to Be Brave
The end of the year is always ripe with reflection, and this one is no different. As we approach the two year mark of our lives being completely flipped upside down, this […]
November 2021 Planning Tips: Get Into the Habit of Holiday Self Care
Ready or not, here it comes; the holiday season is once again upon us! Unfortunately, the season centered around good tidings of comfort and joy can often feel like quite the opposite. […]
October 2021 Planning Tips: Treat Yourself to Planning Ahead
Welcome to October, the last full working month of 2021! No, it’s not an early Halloween trick. November and December, plump with parties and cozy Crock Pots, have only about six workweeks […]
37 Universal Verbs to Use for Your To-Do Lists
A common trip-up when people are making their to-do lists is that they’re either not using verbs in front of action items or the verbs aren’t working for them. In an earlier […]
September 2021 Planning Tips: Sustainably Ramp Up Your Productivity
It’s that time of year where many of us start to dust off our projects that got left with the umbrellas and sweaters of springtime in lieu of OOO and PTO. With […]
How to Make Better Weekly Plans
It’s frustrating to get to the end of a week and feel like you haven’t really gotten anywhere, even though you’ve been working your tail off. All too often, it’s not that […]