Articles tagged "Personal productivity"

The art of deprioritization

You can't have more than one top priority. You just can't. Test text here! Deciding to prioritize one thing means, by definition, deciding not to prioritize something else.

How to make your meetings better with asynchronous techniques

Meetings, am I right? As the world has adapted to remote life, there's nothing quite as soul-sucking as seeing your calendar lined up with a day full of back-to-back Zoom meetings.

The cost of switching lanes: How to use batching to increase productivity

Do you often feel like you're pulled in more directions than you even thought existed? Me too. I work as the Marketing Director at , where I'm responsible for a lot of different projects and a few employees on two different teams.

We tried not looking at our screens first thing in the morning. It helped.

Want to feel stressed, anxious, and/or completely exhausted before you even have breakfast? I highly recommend looking at your phone right when you wake up.

PLEASE UPDATE: Why 2020 will be even better than 2019

Justin: let's quickly update this article, from December of 2019, so that it works now, in December 2020. DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL EDITS ARE COMPLETE. 

Control what you can to avoid feeling overwhelmed

2020 has been such a long decade. And so many things are outside of our control right now, which means it's easy to feel helpless.

Why you should set aside one day every quarter just to think

It is very, very easy to get lost in the day-to-day. There is always some fire to put out, or some recurring task that needs doing, which makes it hard to focus on big-picture stuff.

What I learned about productivity from a job doing nothing

Recently, I quit my job. The reason? I calculated that in almost 4,000 logged hours of work, I had been unproductive 75 percent of the time. That's 3,000 wasted hours. 125 days, more than 4 months of continuous time contributing nothing of value.

Don't be embarrassed of a system that works for you

I love you, readers, but some of you have odd productivity hangups. You shouldn't! At least, not if what you're doing now is working.

Seriously, don't worry about New Year's resolutions for 2021

This year was brutal. You should feel proud just for getting through it, so please: feel free to skip making any 2021 resolutions. I, a professional internet productivity person, hereby liberate you.