Don’t Start With the App
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...
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Build a System That Survives a Bad Week
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 Productivity Skill
Recovery is a fundamental productivity skill, not a reward you earn after work. There's a difference between rest (passive recovery) and rej...
The Cost of Context Switching
Context switching (what most people call multitasking) carries hidden costs: lost time reorienting, diluted attention, more mistakes, and mi...
Pondering Minimalism: How Does Minimalism Affect Your Personal Productivity?
ProdPod: Episode 118 — Pondering Minimalism vis-à-vis Personal Productivity How does minimalism affect your personal productivity? And, is t...
ProdPod: Episode 117 — Getting More Resilient (Resilience and Productivity)
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...
ProdPod: Episode 116 — Resilience and Productivity
A few episodes ago I covered several challenges that people face in their productive lives, including overcoming overwhelm, distractions, in...
ProdPod: Episode 115 -- Thinking INSIDE the Box! (Part 2)
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...
ProdPod: Episode 114 -- Thinking INSIDE the Box! (Part 1)
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...
ProdPod: Episode 113 -- Limiting Resources for Greater Productivity
Intuitively, we know that focus is a fundamental of greater productivity. Broadly and less instinctively, focus manifests heightened product...
ProdPod: Episode 112 -- Overcoming Burnout: Rest and Rejuvenation for Sustainable Productivity
Burnout is a systemic problem not a situational/circumstantial challenge. And, so overcoming burnout is more about how to build systematic “...
ProdPod: Episode 111 -- Overcoming Procrastination
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...
ProdPod: Episode 110 -- Overcoming Indecision
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...
ProdPod: Episode 109 -- Overcoming Distractions
Without focus, almost nothing can get done. Yet distractions abound in our everyday work and personal lives. Here are some suggestions on ov...
ProdPod: Episode 108 -- Overcoming Overwhelm
Overwhelm is a pernicious productivity detractor that affects us all in varying degrees. In my definition, overwhelm is a buildup of stimuli...
ProdPod: Episode 107 -- Managing People for Productivity
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...
ProdPod: Episode 106 -- End of Workday Routine
In the last episode I spoke about routines that were primarily designed to facilitate personal and work life improvements. However, those ar...
ProdPod: Episode 105 -- The Power of Daily Routines: Morning, Midday and Evening Productivity Routines
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)...
ProdPod: Episode 104 -- The Myth of the Left and Right Brain
Let’s discuss how the incorrect left and right brain paradigm impacts your productivity, and how, by thinking about it slightly differently...
ProdPod: Episode 103 -- Managing Up for a More Productive Organizational Culture, Part 2
In episode 102, I introduce the idea of managing up and discussed one leg of it--managing expectations and delegation. Here in this episode,...