As Benjamin Franklin once said, time is like money. Without being managed properly, how do you know where it’s going? Here’s a collection of our best advice on how to manage your time, set proper schedules, and get more done.
Here’s a thought exercise: imagine you finally manage to beat the procrastination motivation monster for once. (For many of us, that would already be a fantasy.) But say you sit down to work, full of beautiful productive motivation, ready to take on the day. Then what? Surely you’re going to try to get some work […]
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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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Meetings. We all know them as the thing we hate the most about our jobs on a biweekly or bimonthly basis. Some consider it perhaps the dumbest thing a great number of smart people around the world still do everyday. It’s remarkable how so many industries, full of supposedly industrious people, still fall back on
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As you settle into your work routine each morning, you might feel some inherent optimism. “Today will be different,” you tell yourself. “This is the day that I get all the things on my list done, and then some. I’m gonna be a machine!” You get the right playlist queued up. You set yourself up
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The end of the year can be a tough time for us productivity warriors. In a perfect world, we’d be looking back at a year of achievements and progress and, you know, being proud of ourselves. But for many of us, we spend this time worrying about how we could have been better—more organized, more
The schedule is the secret Read More »
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
Stop the multitasking madness for your own good 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 »
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
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Full disclosure: I’m never going to stop writing articles about procrastination. As long as procrastination continues to plague us, and ruin our relationships with work and the quality of the things we make—as long as it continues to be the scourge of a generation, a shape-shifting enemy that changes form as soon as we find
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The process of writing for the RescueTime blog isn’t much of a mystery to me anymore. I’ve worked out, after forty or so of these posts, more or less what I’m dealing with. I know what goes into an article, and the tone I aim to hit. And I generally know how much time it
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