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The Podcast of Personal Productivity Lessons in Two Minutes or Less
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Ray was searching for a productivity timer to jumpstart his mornings better and realized the real issue wasn't technology. Many of us look f...

How does a single failure cascade into a bad week? And why should your productivity system be built to survive setbacks, not just support pe...

Recovery is a fundamental productivity skill, not a reward you earn after work. There's a difference between rest (passive recovery) and rej...

Context switching (what most people call multitasking) carries hidden costs: lost time reorienting, diluted attention, more mistakes, and mi...

ProdPod: Episode 118 — Pondering Minimalism vis-à-vis Personal Productivity How does minimalism affect your personal productivity? And, is t...

In the last episode, I defined resilience, or emotional elasticity, as I like to call it. Here, I’d like to detail tactics for bending back...

A few episodes ago I covered several challenges that people face in their productive lives, including overcoming overwhelm, distractions, in...

In the last episode we learned that the scientific research that told everyone to think outside the box to overcome challenges and to be cre...

So often I hear the cliché that you need to be an “out of the box” thinker. Creativity and problem-solving (which I feel frequently are syno...

Intuitively, we know that focus is a fundamental of greater productivity. Broadly and less instinctively, focus manifests heightened product...

Burnout is a systemic problem not a situational/circumstantial challenge. And, so overcoming burnout is more about how to build systematic “...

In Episode 22, I defined procrastination and even gave a few pointers about Procrasti-Doing in Episode 82 . In this episode, I’d like to con...

Do you have a good idea of how well you manage uncertainty and make decisions? For most people, there is no well-defined strategy for overco...

Without focus, almost nothing can get done. Yet distractions abound in our everyday work and personal lives. Here are some suggestions on ov...

Overwhelm is a pernicious productivity detractor that affects us all in varying degrees. In my definition, overwhelm is a buildup of stimuli...

In all my years of management, I’ve learned a few things which have proved consistent, that I have wrapped into a developing, high-level lea...

In the last episode I spoke about routines that were primarily designed to facilitate personal and work life improvements. However, those ar...

For years I’ve spoken about the power of habits, and tangentially, I’ve spoken about many routines that I have--from meditation (Episode 32)...

Let’s discuss how the incorrect left and right brain paradigm impacts your productivity, and how, by thinking about it slightly differently...

In episode 102, I introduce the idea of managing up and discussed one leg of it--managing expectations and delegation. Here in this episode,...

I’ve read extensively and have been honing my management skills over the past two decades, and something I’ve found to be universal is this:...

In the last episode, I spoke about using mind maps as a productivity tool. And, one of my favorite mind mapping tools is the free, Web-based...

Mind maps are a method of capturing thoughts and ideas, dating back as early as the 3rd century BCE in Ancient Rome. The mind map is simply...

In comics, television, film, and now Netflix, there are superheroes who come to save the day when villains attack or bad circumstances befal...

Have you ever entered a competition, or a race, of some kind? Whether it’s a science fair, marathon, triathlon, March Madness, or almost any...

In the last episode we covered the descriptions of time thieves, thugs and terrorists . Now, I’d like to detail how to counteract these time...

Using your time productively means not only managing your time but also protecting it from others who may not have your most productive inte...

While Robert’s Rules of Order may seem outdated, outmoded, prescriptive, and even restrictive, you’d be surprised what a little bit of parli...

While Robert’s Rules of Order may seem outdated, outmoded, prescriptive, and even restrictive, you’d be surprised what a little bit of parli...

A gamified life. For the productivity and technology geek that I am, it sounds like a pretty cool existence. I’d get to live the superhero l...

One of the most unproductive outcomes of the last century’s shift from the Industrial Age to knowledge work in the Digital Age has been the...

Have you ever been in a situation where you lost all your worldly possessions in one day? I have. It’s a life-changing event, even for someo...

When the idea of self-actualization developed in the mid-20th century, far before the field of positive psychology was fostered by Dr. Marti...

Humans have five common senses. (We actually have several more senses not commonly discussed.) Your sense of touch is mostly dedicated to yo...

As I’ve written about before , “happiness” is a terrible word to me. It’s my version of a four-letter word in regard to positive psychology...

Learning, in the way that humans can, is one of the fundamental ways that set us apart from all other species on Earth. Skills acquisition i...

Welcome to Episode 86 of ProdPod, the podcast of productivity lessons in two minutes or less. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith and I have Professional O...

Welcome to Episode 85 of ProdPod, the podcast of productivity lessons in two minutes or less. I’m Ray Sidney-Smith and I have Professional O...

I first became aware of Shawn Achor as the funny, charismatic presenter of the popular TEDxBloomington Talk, "The Happiness Advantage: Linki...

If you are familiar with Getting Things Done by David Allen, or the GTD methodology, you probably know about the 43 folders concept. If you...

There’s a common misconception about procrastination that it only means you’re not doing something you planned to do. Many times we are unaw...

Thanks to the Nobel Prize-winning psychologist and father of behavioral economics, Daniel Kahneman, the scientific community has a deeper un...

Having just finished the ProdPod series on Hoarding, I've got workspaces on the mind. And, when it comes to personal productivity, there's n...

Ray: In this final episode of this ProdPod series on hoarding, I asked Professional Organizer Sally Reinholdt to detail how hoarding is trea...

Ray: We're discussing hoarding in the ProdPod series…and I have Professional Organizer Sally Reinholdt here to define hoarding and how it's...

These next three episodes will be on hoarding and I have with me to help explain hoarding, Sally Reinholdt, owner of Commonwealth Organizing...

“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.” ~Anthony Robbins Tony Robbins should know a thing about being thankful. When...

Steps for Setting Up Your Personal Advisory Board:1. Perform a strategic analysis of your situation, including a business and personal SWOT...

Decide on a communication platform with which everyone can be comfortable and explain how you will communicate to them en masse (via email,...

A Personal Advisory Board is a group of persons who know you, your personality, your strengths and weaknesses, and who you feel comfortable...
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