With up to 40% of our daily behaviors driven by habits, they can either work for us. Or against us. Read out best articles on how to understand what habits are, how to build healthy and good habits, and get rid of our worst ones.
We’re all guilty of it. We’re in one of those moments when we get all inspired (often at 2am on a Sunday) and make proclamations, make plans to change our lives. “This time I’m gonna do it all. Health and productivity and social life and everything else.” So we set about biting off more than […]
Going back to basics to get more done Read More »
For so many of us, the end of a work day means one thing and one thing only: collapsing on the couch. And why would we do anything else? Making it home, after a day on our feet, or running around, or stressing out, or using our brains to their maximum capacity, is an achievement
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Can you remember the last time you gave 100% of your attention to something? When was the last time you sat down—clear of mind and with intention—and worked on one thing until it was done? For many of us, it might have been weeks or months. And now that we have these devices vibrating in
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Typically when you think of “mindfulness” and “meditation,” you think of a dim space lit with candles, a quiet room—turning your phone off and throwing it across the room. (While you do this, you imagine yourself throwing it off a mountain at the monastery where you’re learning to eschew earthly possessions.) The phone, and screens
You and your mind are not alone Read More »
Here at RescueTime, collecting and displaying data is what we do best. We’re with you across every app and website, recording your activity and helpfully categorizing it. And you can use our new feature, Timesheets AI, to put that data into projects to improve their context. But there’s one thing our products, even the ones
Review your data, improve your work Read More »
Generation Z, or as they’ve come to affectionately be called, Zoomers, might just be the best of all of us. Or at least, they have the potential to be the best. You see them on TikTok, making videos that waste no time delivering funny, poignant, or otherwise entertaining moments. In those videos where they need
Productivity Hacks for Generation Z: Balancing Work, Studies, and Personal Life Read More »
Things are different in today’s workplace. That’s not news to you. They’ve “been different” for a few years now. It’s been different so long that the different-ness is entrenched. That overused phrase—“the new normal”—has been beyond exhausted in the intervening years, but as it turns out, it was pretty spot on. And the centerpiece of
One Job, Two Spaces — Mastering the Art of Hybrid Work Read More »
Time for perhaps our simplest and most impactful advice ever.
Something that will improve not only your productivity, but also your health, mood, longevity, and your general overall happiness.
Three things: Sleep. Diet. Exercise.
Three simple fixes that could change your life. Read More »
This month, I faced a new version of an old problem. I’ve been known, like many (most? all?) of us, to struggle with motivation and inspiration and all those forces that help us do what needs to be done. This time, the issues went deeper than usual. I arrived at the end of a long,
Raise your baseline Read More »
Multi-tasking is a myth. No, really. I know you probably know that, on a factual level. I used to claim to know it on a factual level too. But you and me both still try to multitask all the time. It’s almost like we’re irrationally addicted to it. Sometimes our work or personal lives seem
One thing at a time. No, seriously. Read More »
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