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5 Really Productive People

This is a list of the top 5 productivity pundits, in no particular order. When you’re not reading up on it here, you can either check them out at their respective websites (or just read here and we’ll cite them when applicable).

David Allen – Creator of Getting Things Done.
Merlin Mann – 43Folders founder. Mind you, his focus is now on creating stuff as opposed to advising on ways to do just that.
Seth Godin – He ships, ready or not.
Leo Babauta – Simply and effectively – with a certain amount of zen – he gets things to done.
Scott Belsky – CEO of Behance and founder of The 99% Conference…he’s penned a book on Making Ideas Happen.

I’d be doing a disservice if I didn’t mention that there are oodles of other really productive people – and they help others do the same. We’re here to help to help you be awesomely productive as well – and we’re going to continue to do it in the most awesome way we can. Click Here to Read Article …

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Do You Have A Productivity Dilemma?

Mike Vardy 24th May Productivity 12 Comments

First things first.

You enjoy what you do…that’s apparent. That’s why you’re here. It’s not just your work you enjoy, it’s life in general. As a matter of fact, you’d love to be able to enjoy all of it more often – completely, even. That’s always the challenge. Without a doubt, you can’t have it that way unless you really want it so. In order to do that, you’ve got to be not only awesome at what you do, but awesomely productive at it. Click Here to Read Article …

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The Rock Solid Reflection Plan

Mike Vardy 20th May Goals Leave a Comment

One of the best ways – some would say the only way – to keep tabs on where you’re at and where you’re headed in terms of being productive is by looking back on where you’ve been. It’s challenging to do this regularly. Really challenging. What’s more is that many people don’t do it at all. Doing this (or, rather, not doing this) is a recipe of mediocrity…or even organizational disaster.

All that aside, you can do this. You can review, reflect, revisit…whatever you’d like to call it…and you can do it regularly. I’m not going to outline what this consists of – there’s many different ways to do it and not one particular method works for everyone unilaterally. What I can do is present to you a plan on how to make sure you get to the act of doing it. Click Here to Read Article …

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Should I Use a Paper or Electronic Organizer?

Andre Kibbe 13th April Productivity 8 Comments

Ah, the evergreen question of all self-proclaimed productivity geeks. Should you keep your appointments and action lists on paper or in an electronic organizer? The answer: pick one. Making a decision work is more important than making the right decision.

It really doesn’t matter. No, really, it doesn’t. I’ve spent most of my organized years using an electronic setup with a smartphone synced with a desktop PIM — initially the Palm Desktop. Then I briefly defected to a paper organizer, which I swore by for a few weeks until the novelty and its placebo effect wore off, then I returned to an electronic system. Due to the reduced administrative overhead of my current work situation (less email, less customer interaction), I’ve recent been flirting with the idea of just dumping everything on a legal pad, keeping all of my lists on a single sheet.

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Calendar or To Do List? Two Task Management Tools Compared

Andre Kibbe 24th February Productivity 33 Comments

How do you plan and track your daily activities, with a calendar or a to do list? Some productivity gurus claim that putting everything on your calendar ensures that it never gets done, or that you’ll cross off what you don’t get done and just reschedule it for the next day — which defeats the purpose of scheduling. Other gurus claim that putting everything on a list, where items aren’t tied to a time and date, ensures that they never get done, since they lack specific queues to get started or deadlines to finish.

If the choice is mutually exclusive, I think they’re both wrong. Calendars and lists are related, but serve different purposes, not unlike clocks and timers. You can use a clock as a timer, but it’s not the best tool for the job.

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How Not to Become an Overachiever

Mike Vardy 30th December Productivity 6 Comments

There’s something to be said about being too productive, which my WorkAwesome colleague, Mark Garrison, alluded to in a recent article, I’d say that the old adage “less is more” is the best practical approach to any workplace situation. We’ve all heard the quality usurps quantity time and tie again, yet it seems as if we’re always trying to do more…better. The problem is, you can’t do “more” better if you first don’t learn to do “less” best. The practice of doing more stuff adequately is classic underachievement. You take on so much and even if you manage to pull it off and appease your superiors you know deep down that you’re capable of much better.

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Stop Deliberating and Start Delivering

Mike Vardy 25th November Productivity 3 Comments

“The waiting is the hardest part.” – Tom Petty

This adage applies on many fronts (remember desperately wanting to open gifts early as a kid?) and the feeling never really goes away, it just comes and goes in waves. Sometimes it is a result of others making you wait, and sometimes it’s because you’re either hesitating or are just plain stuck. It’s not unavoidable, but it’s bound to happen now and again. It’s a behavioral thing more often than not, and it’s not necessarily your behavior that has the greatest impact.

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4 Practices to Alleviate Office Stress

Ana da Silva 1st October Office Life 19 Comments

During my days at a midtown Manhattan office in New York, I had to come up with ways to reduce stress. I read articles, joined discussion forums, went to therapy, tried every cliché suggested to make office life more bearable but eventually I just had to figure out what worked in my environment. After all, suggestions to take a coffee break and breathe didn’t work at my office: the coffee machine was often broken and there was too much dust in the air.

Hopefully you like your job and you don’t work in an office resembling a shoe factory from the industrial revolution but anyone can make use of the practices I suggest for making your everyday office life less stressful or just more pleasant. I’m no health professional and my source of knowledge on the topic are the years of experience as a stressed-out office worker and the many resources (some professional) that I came across during those years.

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