A little over a week ago Lifehack.org had a very interesting article looking at five productivity ideas the author, Dustin Wax, was not yet buying into. I found it to be a very well written, intriguing read that encouraged a lot of thought. Here’s my opinions on the five ideas.

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This is the final part of Organize IT’s birthday special where I posed three questions to a number of my favourite productivity bloggers. I hope you enjoyed this series and gained something from reading such varied opinions, I know I did. I will have to try doing another interview in the near future. Anyways, onto the final question I asked which was, “What are your experiences and advice for breaking bad habits and developing new ones?” Leave your own thoughts and answers to this question in the comments!

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Welcome to the second part of Organize IT’s birthday special where I posed three questions to a number of my favourite productivity bloggers. The results have been very interesting to read. The second question I asked was, “What is the single productivity tip/lifehack that you have implemented that has had the most positive influence in your life?” As always please leave your thoughts and answers to the question in the comments, the results don’t have to just be from the ten bloggers :)

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As promised a few weeks back, here is the first part of the Organize IT birthday interview where I asked a number of my favorite productivity bloggers three carefully chosen questions (at least I like to think they were carefully chosen). It certainly gave me a chance to see how effective Gmail is for sorting emails. This is my first attempt at an interview of sorts, so I hope it’s up to standard. The first question I asked was, “what events or experiences initially made you want to be more organized and productive?” Please share your own responses in the comments. Hope you enjoy this series!

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I am now heavily reliant on my single sheet template for organizing my projects and staying productive (I also have a few older ones here). However there are a lot of other printable templates you can experiment with. Below is a small list of links I have found that may be of interest if you are after some ideas or want to print a few out. Please share any others you know of in the comments and I will add them to the list.

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