Habit List Vs ToDo List
Mark Shead at Productivity501 has separated his regular todo's from his 'actual' todo list. He's talking about your day to day items that might obscure what you're trying to achieve with your todo list. “Habit” tasks ten
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Nine Brain Quirks You Didn't Realize You Had
I think the brain is most interesting when it doesn’t work the way you expect it should. Psychology often confirms our intuitions about how our minds work, but it offers quite a few surprises as well. Although some psych
The Stacking Method for Memorizing
Dean Hunt at RetiredAt21 has written a summary of what's known as 'stacking' for memorizing. You may have come across a similar story, but Dean recalls one of a college student who memorized the first 7 chapters of a tex
Filofax For GTD
David Mackay at OrganisedLife.com has some tips to using an A5 Filofax for his GTD system. It's a continuing project - one that he's been using happily for well over a year now - taht outlines how you can use an existing
10 Steps to a Zen-like Working Environment
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." -- Hans Hoffman Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." -- Henry David Thoreau For today's knowledge worker
Kill Meetings to Get More Done
You've got your list of things you want to accomplish for today, and yet, after a series of meetings that you had to go to throughout the day, none of the things on your list got done. That's because meetings are almost
Interview with Tim Ferriss, Author of The 4-Hour Workweek
Do you want to work less and achieve more? Learn how from this interview with Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek.
What to Do in Free Time? 20 Productive Ways to Use the Time
Have some spare time and are wondering what to do in free time? Here're 20 productive things you can do to make good use of the time.
Top Ten Sources of Interruptions
It’s eye-opening when you realize that many of the interruptions that occur in your day may actually be under your own control! In no particular order, here are the top ten interruptions we see most often with our client
The Gentle Art of Saying No for a Less Stressful Life
Being able to say ‘no’ is critical to having a balanced and successful life. Here are some ways to say no with gentleness.
The Pros and Cons of Working From Home: How to Embrace Them All
Since the pandemic that hit 2020, working from home has become the norm. Here are some of the pros and cons of working from home.
Ten Reasons To Turn Off Your TV
Watching television could hardly be described as a productive activity. I'd like to see something flip that in an article about TV Productivity, but until then it may be better turned off. Here are Ten reasons: Electrici
Happiness is the Best Productivity Tool
Not to discourage the use of any productivity system around, Positive Sharing would like to stress the importance of being happy in what you're doing, and how beneficial it is to your work. 1: Happy people work better wi
5 Tips to 'Handle' Unwanted Workplace Visitors
Ian McKenzie has a few tips to keep those office visits as short as you like, so you can get back to work. There's nothing worse than someone over-staying there welcome, at work or otherwise. Be the visitor. If you have
Why Multitasking Doesn’t Work — And What Actually Works
Think multitasking is productive? Think again! Here's why multitasking doesn't work and what actually works when tackling many tasks.