Getting stuff completed often takes hard work and effort at the best of times, and it can be harder still when you aren’t motivated, or don’t even want to work on it in the first place. Even the simple two minute task can become akin to a chore if you don’t like what it is [...]

When people write about productivity they very often give off the impression that it involves being active and getting stuff done all of the time. Productivity in its traditional sense is essentially about doing more with less. Getting more projects completed in less time. Problem with that is there is no scope for downtime. In [...]

Starting something and following it through to completion provides clarity because it gets it off your mind, and a clear mind is an important element of being productive. It’s difficult to get anything done when you have twenty incomplete things pulling your mental energy in different directions. Imagine all your next actions as blips on [...]

I’m sure a lot of you can relate with me when I say that since I jumped on the productivity bandwagon, I’ve picked up lots of random little tips from my own experiences and reading other blogs. It’s not practical to just bring them all together into one big mash-up of an article, so I [...]