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 […]
Lifehacks
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
To Lead Them, Know Them
This post is a continuation of The Elements of Leadership series. To effectively lead people, you have to know who they are. I’m not talking about learning their names and positions. Where […]
Teach Your Team The Three Types of Decisions
This post is part of the Elements of Leadership series. The art of leadership takes years to learn, mainly because knowing how to lead requires knowledge of yourself, knowledge of those you […]
Balancing Freebies and Time Creep When Planning
When planning, should we look at how much time is allotted for the day and try to fill it, or do we look at how many tasks we have planned and cap […]
Mastering the To-Do List
The chief problem many of us face when we make our To-Do lists is that we try to list everything that we’re thinking about doing. The result is that we end up […]
Is Backpack Worth the Time and Money?
The short answer: For most users, Backpack is worth the time and money. Backpack is an online service offered by 37Signals that makes organizing your information incredibly easy. Backpack lets you make […]
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 […]
A Special Theory of Productivity
I mentioned after I completed the Daily Momentum Planner that I figured out how to write this post. Life intervened and I lost the muse. I’m currently in the process of reconstructing […]
The Daily Momentum Planner
The video above is a short walkthrough of the Daily Momentum Planner. The Daily Momentum Planner helps you plan to do the right projects and actions during the right part of the […]
When to Swallow Your Daily Frog
If you know you have to swallow a frog, swallow it first thing in the morning. If there are two frogs, swallow the big one first. – Mark Twain You know how […]
15 Ways to Be A Better Friend
This post is a continuation of the Practicing the Virtues Series. This week, we’ll talk being a better friend. I’ll give a brief recap of where we’re at. We become more virtuous through […]
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. […]