How much time do you spend each week working through the important, deep, and future-building work? How much time could have been spent on the significant, strategic change work that often gets […]
Productive Capacity
How to Balance Parent and Professional: The Start Finishing Guide to School-Time Productivity
Editor’s note: “How to Balance Parent and Professional: The Start Finishing Guide to School-Time Productivity” is a guest post by Jenn Labin. Like so many other parents (and others) out there, I […]
5 Key Ways to Identify Your New Strengths in 2020
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jenn Labin. Starting March 13th of this year, the concepts of routine, consistency, and productivity evaporated from many people’s lives, including mine. (Side note: I […]
How to Juggle Your Creative Projects Around Family Life
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Ali Luke. It can be tough to make the space and find the energy for creative projects at the best of times. But when you […]
How to Find the Right Level of Success for Your Next Project
As you’re thinking about that next big project you want to tackle in 2020, it’s important to consider just how big that big project will be. Which means you’ll need to define […]
Core Conversations on Start Finishing: How to Overcome FOMO and Finish More Projects
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversations on Charlie’s book Start Finishing. In our last conversation, Kerra Bolton talked about the practical magic of rewriting the stories we tell ourselves. In […]
Core Conversations on Start Finishing: 3 Helpful Ways to Maximize Your Recovery Blocks
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversations on Charlie’s book Start Finishing. In our last conversation, Rachael Ridenour talked about how to see your projects as mirrors and how to process […]
Core Conversations on Start Finishing: The 3 Simple Steps You Need to Hold Up Your Projects as Mirrors
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversations on Charlie’s book Start Finishing. In our last conversation, Danielle LaSusa talked about the five key virtues for doing our best work. In today’s […]
How to Overcome Major Disruptions in Your Work Life
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jenn Labin. Major disruptions to our work lives can take any number of forms. You might get sick, married, start a certification class, or begin […]
Why the Summer Is Surprisingly Busy — and What to Do about It
Many people find themselves surprisingly busier in the summer than they expect to be. The chief reason we’re surprised is that the summer brings new projects that we often don’t count as […]
3 Questions to Help You Prepare for a Productive Year
Yes, I know it’s almost mid-February. I also know that many people are still trying to plan so they can have a productive year — which is why I’m pushing this out […]
New Year, New You: Do You Need to Refine Your Family Scrum?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jenn Labin. A year ago, I shared the process my family uses for our weekly scrum. I described how scrum changed the way we communicate […]
How to Be a Productive Powerhouse Using Time Blocking
A common pitfall people have with time management is underestimating how long it takes to do something. The result is that days are hectic and cramped, projects that needed to get done […]
7 Questions to Ask If You’re Failing One Success at a Time
One of the more frustrating things about life, work, and business is how easy it is to look back over what you’ve been doing to see that you’ve done a lot but […]
How to Referee Your Project Cagematch (and Unveil Your Values and Priorities)
While most of us dream of some idealized time and place where we can work on just one project at a time, the persistent reality for most of us is that we’re continually […]
3 Steps to Get Out of "I Don't Have Time" Thinking
You can listen to the audio that spawned this post below. We’ve all been there. I’m too busy to read/work out/take an art class. When people aren’t doing the things they want and […]
How to Avoid the Slippery Slope of Learning Seep
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Breanne Dyck. I knew it was dumb, even as I was doing it. This was about three years ago. I was sitting at my […]
What to Do With Your Loose Tasks and Projects
Some tasks and projects fit nicely into broader goals, and other times, they don’t seem connected to bigger-picture items. When you’re looking at an uncategorized To-Do […]