Keep Email Out of Your Inbox
Four Tips to Make It Easier to Get to Inbox Zero
Getting to Inbox Zero can feel like you’re shoveling the sidewalk while it’s still snowing. Here’s a four-part approach to tame your inbox before you even check your mail.
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Rethinking Productivity as a Parent
7 Secrets I Wish I’d Known (and Accepted) Sooner
Having kids is the most rewarding thing you will do in this life. It’s also going to test your productivity skills like nothing else.
Productivity Comes from Planning
Without a plan, you’re just busy
The key to productivity is to have a plan. Whatever timeframe you’re looking at, it’s the only way to make reliable progress towards your destination.
Routinely Get More Done
Are you building success into your everyday life?
In the early 1990s, researchers at MIT accidentally proved you can get more done with less effort by thinking less about what you’re doing. It just takes some preparation, practice, and discipline.
Keep It Simple
Start with the simplest thing that could possibly work. It probably will
Go with the simplest thing that could possibly work. Only add complexity when you know you need it.
Searching Evernote
How to use Evernote’s powerful search capabilities
There’s no point to archiving information if you can’t find it again. Evernote can help you save what’s important and find it again when you need it.
Do More Up Front
Take the time to let results happen automatically
When you find yourself thinking “there has to be an easier way”, there probably is. You just need to pay the price to get there.
When Everything’s Important, Nothing Is
You really can get more done by focusing on less
What’s important needs to stand out. Don’t let things that are unimportant pull you down.
5 Types of Productivity Debt
The further you get behind, the more you have to work to get ahead
Productivity is about doing less of what you have to do so you can do more of what you love. Here are five ways our choices can get in the way of that, creating more “debts” we need to pay off first.
The Secret to a Productive Monday
Five Proven Strategies to Start the Week on the Right Foot
The secret to a productive Monday begins on Friday. Don’t end the week until you have a plan for how to start the next one.