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.
For years, I had a system. Or at least I thought I did. I called it “my impenetrable wall.” Sometime during college, I had figured out a way to get work done against a deadline, no matter what. I could get anything done if I gave myself a weekend, or a couple days, to devote […]
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Productivity nerds around the globe can agree on one thing: we can’t get enough of daily routines. We love watching other peoples’ routines, and we love designing and refining our own— even if it means procrastinating on our current tasks to think about tomorrow. It’s a healthy impulse. There’s enough conventional wisdom and scholarship out
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Almost every day I try to do the same thing with my work. And if I’m working on my computer, I do it with RescueTime. I write articles and copy for various publications, edit videos and short films, and do various administrative and spreadsheet-adjacent productivity work in intervals. And there’s email. Lots of email. With
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There’s something I need to come clean about. I feel like I’ve been living a lie. As someone who literally writes a bi-monthly column about getting things done, you’d think I would have all of my own productivity systems perfectly designed and executed. I would be flattered if you pictured me as a productivity guru,
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The idea of a “fresh start”—wiping your slate clean, tidying up your workspace, and resetting your mind—has been discussed on this blog before. We’ve talked about the concept’s numerous benefits, and we’ve also talked about the ways in which it might be actually overrated. After all, your desk and inbox are probably clean enough to
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I’ve had too much on my plate lately. Maybe you know the feeling. It’s my own fault, of course. It’s easy to take on more work. After all, you wanna do your best—push yourself—and the simplest way of pushing yourself to do more is agreeing to do something. Or even more effective—telling someone else you’ll
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A lot of the productivity content out there, from videos and books to seminars and blogs, including the ones you read here at RescueTime, seem to operate off the assumption that we’re all freelancers with wide open schedules. They act like we all have the time to build in jam-packed morning and evening routines, and
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As you work to cultivate a productive workflow for yourself and set off to get some real work done, you’re likely to run into some sticking points on your journey. Don’t worry, it’s all normal. Once you have more than one project to focus on, you’ll need something to help you keep track of them.
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You can’t do your best work when your attention is scattered across 12 open apps, 34 ongoing conversations, and a to-do list a mile long.
By becoming a digital minimalist, you’re able to rebuild your relationship with technology so that it serves you. Not the other way around.
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