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Get instant access to the tools, planners, and worksheets to help you be more productive.

Planners and Worksheets

The Monthly Momentum Planner: Tie your Big Ideas to the projects you need to complete this month, and watch those Big Ideas become reality.

The Productivity Heatmap: Figure out when to work on your creative projects -- and when not to. Work during your peak productivity times and enjoy your time off, guilt-free.

The Daily Habit Tracker: Building new habits? Use the Daily Habit Tracker to monitor your progress. What gets tracked gets done.

The Handoff Holder: Juggling any action items that you need to hand off to someone else? The Handoff Holder is your one-drop shop.

Ebooks and Action Guides

Start Finishing Action Guide: Are you ready to take action on that next great idea? The Start Finishing Action Guide is a step-by-step workbook that will help you go from "idea" to "done."

The 10 Pillars of Productive Flourishing: A GREAT place to start in the library. This is a compilation of posts that give a deeper sense of what Productive Flourishing is all about.

Bounce Back: Defeat Demotivation, Face Down Failure, Rule Out Regret: Are you in a funk, demotivated, or nursing the wounds from a setback? This ebook starts with the uncomfortable reality of where you might be right now and ends with ways you can create a better tomorrow.

Collaborative Webinars and Inspirational Interviews

Making Plans That Work: The secret to doing your best work is mastering mid-term planning: not the project kickoff, and not its wrap-up, but that slog in between, where the real work takes place. Michael Bungay Stanier and I discuss how to master the middle and make plans that actually work.

How to Turn Your Best Ideas Into Goals and Successful Projects: Ever been stuck with an idea because you don't know how to move it forward? In this 30-minute interview, Stephen Lahey and I discuss the steps required to go from idea to done.

Small Business and Productivity: Chris Brogan and I riff about small business productivity, marketing, how small businesses grow, and how to get your business and product in front of the people who need it.

"Productive Flourishing is a great resource that has helped me to become more effective. I love that the advice isn’t just for office workers. Everything from the planners to the blog helps to create structure and momentum for those of us carving our own furrow — creatives, freelancers and entrepreneurs."