Month: April 2016
Being okay with boredom increases productivity
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It’s clearly a great use of your time to read a bit via your phone while you’re standing in line right? I mean otherwise you’re just standing there not being productive. I’m sorry to say that you shouldn’t just be pulling that phone out every minute. You should be bored in line sometimes.
Tribes by Seth Godin: Which Tribe Do You Lead?
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Seth Godin is the renowned author of books like Purple Cow and Linchpin and a myriad of other familiar books around marketing and being awesome at your work. Tribes is his book about what it takes to get leverage with your idea. That leverage comes from leading a Tribe and the leverage that leadership brings.…
The 10 Productivity and Business Books You Should Read
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There is a plethora of productivity books out there to read. So many that you could make reading them a full-time job, and even getting through a few a week you’d be further behind at the end of the year than when you started. Today I want to talk about the ones that I think…
How I achieve paper 0
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Despite our best efforts we still have to deal with paper. You still get receipts you can write off while your out. You still need to write things down sometimes. You need a way to track all those pieces of paper. Today I’m talking about how I deal with the paper that comes in to…
Learn to Triumph Over Trials: The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
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Our actions may be impeded…but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. – Marcus Aurelius from The Obstacle is the Way Right in the preface of The Obstacle is the Way author Ryan…
Focus, Purpose and the Tools You Use
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I find it both sad and interesting that the most viewed posts on my site are the ones where I compare different software tools or do a detailed review of a software tool. It’s great because it helps me reach more people with my content but sad because this is a symptom of a bigger…
Don’t just look for ‘any benefit’ when you’re choosing tools
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It’s so easy to see some new web ‘thing’ come along and think it’s awesome. Sure there is some utility but is there really enough benefit to offset the bad things that come along with it?
Looking death in the face and its effect on purpose
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I’ve been thinking lots about purpose lately as something inside quests for my purpose. Above my desk are four Post-it notes with the following messages: My business will let me spend much of my time traveling and being in the wilderness I need a one-to-many business model and to cut my Internet days down to…
The ways you let communication ruin your life
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The online world is amazing. Every week we get new awesome tools that can make our lives better. From dropping email and using instant communication methods like Slack, to automating parts of our lives with services like Zapier. There is so much to be thankful for and amazed by online. There is also a subtle…
What does a good review and goal planning process look like?
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The weekly review is a key part to an effective productivity system. When I’ve tracked my productivity I’ve seen a 15 – 20% drop in what I get done in a week if I miss my weekly review. Today I’m going to tell you what my quarterly, weekly, and daily review process looks like.
