productivity – balance

Choose Wisely, Leader

Everywhere we look, there are tumultuous events on the surface and a calmer, wiser, stronger force sitting quietly behind the hoopla. We […]

Destructive leadership rations energy. Productive leadership pumps energy into everyone freely. To share so much, we first have to find and tap […]

Which is easier? Trying to keep track in your head of the ever-increasing pile of stuff to do or learning to write […]

Sometimes all we need is a teeny win. Committing to taking a step in the right direction–even a step that is not in […]

A large pile of tasks can make us feel anxious, annoyed, or apoplectic. We think that these feelings are a reaction to the pile–a […]

A productivity system helps us capture, organize, and plan things to do. Whether we use an electronic or paper-based system, we want […]

What’s the best way to get something unpleasant done? We can use various techniques to push ourselves to do it. Or we […]

Have you ever started using a new productivity system (app, list, notebook, cards, etc.) then abandoned it? This usually happens because we […]

Here is a rather unusual productivity boost that takes just 2 minutes per day: set simple, quiet bedtime and waking up buzz-raising […]

One of the main causes of procrastination is confusion about what to do next. When we do not know the best next, […]