Ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of stuff swirling around in your mind? Sometimes feel lost and lacking in focus? The reason will likely be that you have amassed many unresolved thoughts in your head, and our brains simply aren’t very good at dealing with these never ending loops in our minds. Whenever I feel [...]

View original image In a recent recap I pointed out a Lifehack.org article arguing that the current climate for hyper-productivity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Then yesterday I came across a similar post, claiming that the pursuit of productivity has ended up out of control. It seems that there is now an increasing [...]

I’ve been reading, practicing and blogging about productivity, GTD and various related topics for around two years now. I wish I could remember more clearly what set me on this road, there was certainly no major epiphany or one big moment. I probably came across an interesting article on lifehacking and GTD through Digg or [...]

Recently I read a great article by Steve Pavlina about moving from a 7 to a 10. This struck a chord with me because if you don’t already know I use a ratings system in my weekly planner to track my performance. I consider using some form of ratings system a key component of any [...]

View original source For the last two days I have written about ten tasks that you can trim out of your to-do list to leave things much more focused and streamlined. However, one of the issues that people may not be aware of is what the advantages of having a slimmed down list are. Below [...]