Most creatives I know would love to make money doing their thing if they could. In fact, I haven’t ran into anybody who has said “I love doing this creative thing, but […]
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Beyond Productivity: Living From The Inside Out (Episode 5)
The High Cost of Productivity In Episode 5, Andre, Dustin, Sara, Duff, and I discuss why people are drawn to productivity, as well as whether there are some costs to productivity. This […]
Beyond Productivity: Living From the Inside Out (Episode 1)
[display_podcast] What’s the relationship between productivity and personal development? In Episode 1, Sara, Duff, Jonathan, and I talk about why there seems to be a disconnect between productivity and personal development, even […]
Beyond Productivity: Living From the Inside Out (Introduction)
The conceptual landscape of productivity and personal development is in dire need of some revisioning. This has been apparent to many of the bloggers, writers, and coaches in the field, and many […]
Stop Shuffling and Start Creating
See if this is about right for you: You start your day working on one project. An idea hits you, so you start working with that idea. While working with that idea, […]
Stop Lying and Start Creating
Editor’s note: I recorded this as a podcast for Productive Flourishing long after I originally published this post. I hope you enjoy it, and if you’d like to hear more episodes of the […]
Idea Nodes, Opportunity Chains, and Hypernetworking
The true nature of connectedness is about the quality of connections and not the quantity of connections. Though a lot of us know this on some level, we really don’t understand it. […]
Do You Have an Idea Garden?
Where do you plant your idea seeds? How do you give those idea seeds the love and attention they need to become your next great idea? From my experience, most people have […]
Why Waiting for Your Time to Be Great Leads to Failure
A whole train of passengers (individually brave enough) will be looted by a few highwaymen, simply because the latter can count on one another, while each passenger fears that if he makes […]
Productive Play: The Middle Ground Between Work and Play
I take it that a few people thought the point of my last post was to suggest that people should quit their jobs. Perhaps it’s the point in which I come out […]
To Embrace Greatness, Embrace Failure: 21 Tributes to Failure
Here’s the deal: You’re smart. You’re creative. You know what you’re doing. But you’re scared as hell of failing and making mistakes. Maybe it’s because you’ve been so damned good at whatever […]
Time, Creativity, and Metaprojects
One thing we often forget when we make new commitments is that time is only one of the various factors to consider. Because we’ve been taught to think about time quantitatively rather […]
We Are What We Repeatedly Do
We are what we repeatedly do. -Aristotle I used to just think about this quote in the positive way, such as “if I continue to write, then I am a writer.” It’s […]
The 4 Steps of the Creative Process
“I’m not creative.” “I wish I could be more creative, but I don’t have it in me.” “Why are some people creative and others aren’t?” If I had a nickel for every […]
When A Cobbler Wears His Shoes…
Last week was a good week on the productivity front for me. You saw this as an increase in posts, but it was also manifested in my offline work. I’ve had a […]
21 Ways to Quickly Short-Circuit a Funk
The situation: you find yourself in a funk. I’m not talking about the Pepé Le Pew kind of funk – that just requires the generous application of soap and water. The kind […]
What Preschool Taught Us About Time Management
I mentioned in How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive that I thought most personal planners got time wrong and presented all blocks of times as being equal. Later that […]
How Heat Mapping Your Day Can Make You More Productive
Productive capacity is different from what you’re actually producing. The way I think about it is that it’s the amount of productivity that you’re capable of in a given amount of time. […]