work-life balance

Five Reasons You Need to Build Margin Into Your Schedule

The secret to flexibility, spontaneity, and productivity

We can only push ourselves for so long. By building margin into our schedule, we can keep a sustainable pace, live life to its fullest, and get more done in the long run.

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Why Are You Trying So Hard to Be Productive?

If you’re busy all the time, you’re doing it wrong

The point of being productive isn’t to be busy all the time. It’s to make more room for the things that matter most to you.

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41 Things to Do at Work Before You Go On Vacation

How to Leave Work at Work, Enjoy Your Time Off, and Come Back Fresh

We’re so connect now that it can be hard to leave work at work when we go on vacation. Here are 41 things you can do to leave work at work, enjoy your vacation, and start off on the right foot when you get back.

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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.

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Protect Your Focus with Email-Free Zones

Give yourself permission to work without getting dinged

Here are some times you definitely should not be checking email. You can start breaking free of your email addiction here.

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Four Keys to Balancing Work with Life’s Other Roles

The secret is more connections, not compartmentalization

Your roles in life are ways you’ve chosen to express yourself and your values. If they are in competition with each other, they’ll constantly compete for your time.

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Get Better Results by Saying No

Protect the deeper Yes

We want to be helpful. If we spread ourselves too thin, we aren’t helping anyone succeed—especially ourselves.

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Time to Reflect and Reconnect

Step back and get in touch with the important things in your life

Christmas is a great time to reconnect with your vision of who you want to be, but it can be particularly hard to find peace and quiet to do so.

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The Ivy Lee Method: Simply Productive

Productivity at its best: Write it, prioritize it, do it

Sometimes the best thing you can do to increase your productivity is also the simplest.

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