It’s the end of the year. And on top of finishing work projects, planning for the holidays, and enjoying a bit of year-end cheer, you’ve got a bunch of RescueTime logs in front of you! So what can you do with them? How about a personal annual review.
How to do a personal annual review with RescueTime in 3 easy steps [Updated for 2019] Read More »
It’s disheartening to feel like you’re not in control of your own actions. Yet it’s impossible to avoid the websites, apps, and online products that feed on our focus. This is why you need a website blocker.
While RescueTime does a good job at showing you when you were focused in the past, active and immediate feedback on your attention in the moment has been the most crucial missing piece of focus.
I recently spoke with Sabri Ben-Achour from Marketplace about the impact of social media in the workplace and whether or not it’s harmful to our productivity.
Do you check social media at work? Here’s why it’s not as bad as you think. Read More »
Email can take over your life if you let it. And while there are a ton of tweaks you can use to optimize your inbox, these are the ones that work best for me.
Email like a CEO: How I get through 500+ emails a day (without going crazy) Read More »
FEB. 5 UPDATE: RescueTime iOS is back in the app store with time, pickup, and location tracking features! Download RescueTime for iOS here. It’s been more than ten years since the first iPhone came out and changed pretty much every facet of our daily lives. (Incidentally, RescueTime started around the same time, so we’ve been
Imagine this: You’re just getting into the zone on a hard project, when all of a sudden a notification gets shoved in your face from your boss about tomorrow’s meeting. Not a big deal. But you stop and check it out of habit. Then, as you’re getting back to work, a Slack message pops up
Focus hack: How to use Do Not Disturb mode on your computer, phone, and tablet Read More »
Excessive staff meetings can be a frustrating part of the culture in large companies and I often hear from our users that sprawling, unproductive meetings are near the top of the ‘necessary evils’ they put up with in their jobs.
The true cost of big staff meetings (and how to break your team’s addiction to them) Read More »
Doing effective, meaningful work in my role as CEO for a small startup requires a lot of communicating and interacting with other people. It’s all important, and generally satisfying when I get done with it, but it’s overwhelming!
Four communication hacks that help me survive as an introverted CEO Read More »
Working late at night is sort of great. There are no distractions, fewer obligations, it even feels sort of weird to send someone an email once it gets too late. It’s a fantastic time to focus. But if I get carried away with it, I really end up paying for it the next day. The
How I scare the crap out of myself to avoid feeling like a zombie the next day Read More »
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