Whenever I'm feeling drained, sick, or otherwise low on energy I don't just use energy as a filter for the tasks I'm going to work on. I also use my criteria for an MVP Day as a way to get the right things done. An MVP Day is a day where you focused on what you need to do to achieve minimum viable productivity for the day. Those tasks are usually 3… Continue reading
How to Be Prudent and Productive
In uncertain times when chaos appears to be the only thing in sight, do your best not to panic. Instead, be prudent. Saint Thomas Aquinas said this: "Prudence is right reason in action." That's why being productive with prudence in… Continue reading
Braving Burnout: How to Go on When it Feels Like There’s Nowhere to Go
Photo by Marcel Hol from FreeImages The following post is a guest contribution from Stewart Dunlop. I haven't taken guest posts in a while but the topic of burnout has come up a lot lately and when Stewart asked if… Continue reading
How to Unlock Habit-Building Success and Achieve Your Goals
This is a guest post from Michael Schechter, my good friend and former co-host of my former podcast, Mikes on Mics. When I reached out to him to join me on a special episode of The Productivityist Podcast to celebrate… Continue reading
Why I Stopped Saying You Can’t Use Email to Manage Tasks
For years I’ve been a champion of steering clear of email when you’re trying to manage your tasks. Every time I have witnessed someone using Outlook or Gmail as a to do list, I cringed and did my best to… Continue reading
How to Build an Achievement Structure: Getting the Front End Work Done
The title may seem daunting, but the idea behind it is simple: You must set yourself up in advance so that you can keep yourself from simply going through the motions every day — which is really what you’re doing if you’re… Continue reading
The Speed of Right
"Slow and steady wins the race.” – The Tortoise and The Hare In our quest to get things done, we can find ourselves moving too fast. When that happens we run the risk of missing key components of task completion,… Continue reading
The One Piece of Time Management Advice That You Should Definitely Follow
I’ve been studying personal productivity and time management for years now and there’s one question that comes up often. “What’s one piece of productivity and time management advice that you would give to everyone?” I love to talk about this… Continue reading
Don’t Worry About It
“Don’t worry about it.” I hate this phrase. Hearing this phrase does the exact opposite of its intent. It creates worry for me. I find that worry is a waste of time. I'm with Travis Bradberry on this. He said… Continue reading
The Sound of Sixty Seconds
During the workshops and talks I deliver I'll often ask the attendees (or audience) to do absolutely nothing for an entire minute. I time that minute and to this day I still get fidgety at around the forty second mark.… Continue reading
Where Your Time Can Go
I’ve been spending a lot of time watching Highway to Heaven for the past couple of months. I’m not a particularly religious person but the show offers some strong messages that I think are valuable and we need to hear.… Continue reading
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