Articles tagged "Personal productivity"

Break Bad Work Habits with the Help of These 10 Apps

You'll likely work around 90,000 hours throughout your career—an incredible amount of time. Sadly, much of it gets wasted.

14 Ways to Redesign Your Day for an Optimal Work-life Balance

For many of us, the balance between work and life has become so hopelessly out of kilter that getting a handle on it seems overwhelming and nearly impossible.

Strategy First, App Second: 5 Productivity Methods, and the Apps that Make them Work

Plenty of apps promise to help you stay productive. But it's hard to maximize your energy and stay on schedule.

Presidential Productivity: How America's Leaders Balance Priorities to Get More Done

When you're the decision-maker for an entire nation, even a tiny mistake could alter history. That's the situation President John F. Kennedy faced in October 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Solve Problems and Test Ideas Faster with Google Ventures' Design Sprint Framework

The best ideas always seem to come at the last minute. There's a project with a crazy deadline, a blank spot in this week's editorial calendar, or an impromptu speech an hour from now.

How to Avoid the 9 Things That Hurt Productivity Most

You’ve probably seen enough "fail" videos to guess what happens when a skateboarder rolls towards stairs, a bike gets anywhere near a tree, or a dog runs full speed at a sliding glass door.

The 50 Best Hidden Productivity Tricks in Trello, Slack, Evernote and More

Trello, Asana, Evernote, Todoist, Slack, and Google Inbox are all some of the very best productivity tools. They're each focused on a different function—from task management to email—but they're also each well-designed and intuitive.

Make a Plan: How to Outline Your Ideas with 20 Powerful Tools

It doesn't matter how many ideas you have if you can't connect them. To turn those scattered concepts into a finished product, you're going to need a coherent plan. That’s what outlines are good for.

20+ Fitness Tools that Track Your Exercise, Meals, Sleep, and More

Quick: How many hours of sleep did you get the night before your most recent productive day? What did you eat for breakfast? Did you exercise at all, or meditate when you woke up?

The Endowed Progress Effect: How to Motivate Your Customers With a Head Start

I drink a lot of Starbucks. It’s a block from where I work and they make a pretty good Chai latte, but it's their rewards program that has me hooked. I get a star every time I make a purchase, and a free drink for every 12 gold stars I earn.