How to Properly Drink Coffee (Your Coffee Drinking Guide)
Wondering how to properly drink coffee so you can benefit from it for an energy and productivity boost? Here's your coffee drinking go-to guide.
How to Make Decisions Under Pressure
Thanks to the nature of life and society, we're often forced to make our most important decisions under pressure. Whether that pressure is caused by a lack of time, emotional duress, or something else entirely, it's hard
The Art of Note Taking in the Digital Age
Note taking is as ancient an art as any. There are hefty tomes on the subject of how to best capture and organize information in a swift and legible manner and courses devoted to the subject in colleges. And yet, the mos
How to Hack Your Morning
I don’t know about you, but if I’ve got somewhere to be early in the morning (though my definition of early is probably different than yours), there’s usually a manic rush as I try and get everything done on time before
Managing the Ebb and Flow of Energy
Humans aren’t machines; we don’t have a constant source of power from which we draw to perform complicated functions all the time, without breaks. Rather, our power supplies—or our energy levels—dip and rise with each ho
10 Reasons You Should Write Something Each Day
The written word is a part of every day life. At its most basic, writing is a way of communicating. This is the one inalienable characteristic of writing itself, whether you're communicating with a colleague or friend or
19 Free GTD Apps for Windows, Mac & Linux
There are plenty of great, free Getting Things Done apps out there. If you're a fan of David Allen's productivity system but can't do paper and don't have the cash for a commercial program, this is the collection of appl
The Quick & Dirty Guide to Personal Wikis
Personal wikis were a big fad for productivity geeks for a while, but that seems to have toned down a lot through 2008. Wikis are still incredibly useful, and can make you more productive. You can think of a personal wik
How to Use Parkinson's Law to Get More Done in Less Time
Parkinson's Law is all about getting more done in less time. If you want to up your productivity learn how to use this idea to your advantage.
34 Tips for Your Younger Self
In January, we asked you what advice you’d give your younger self as part of our regular We Ask, You Answer feature. There was plenty of great advice—and a lot of catharsis, it seemed—and we’ve collected some of the best
How to Maximize Efficiency by Grouping Tasks
There’s a metaphor many of use on a daily basis that compares our brain to a car or a bicycle with gears. I need to shift gears or my head’s in the wrong gear for this indicates that the human brain, for the sake of effi
30 Tips to Rejuvenate Your Creativity
Recently, we asked the readers what their tips for staying creative were. Sometimes creativity flows from the heavens, but other times, as we all know, it’s like drawing water from a stone. The following are the best tip