Our success depends on so much more than just what we do during our working hours. Doing meaningful work means finding a work life balance between being ‘on’ and being ‘off’—a seemingly simple idea, but one that almost all of us struggle with. Here’s a collection of our best advice on how to find work life balance, no matter what you do.
At the end of this past week, I realized I had nothing planned for my weekend—the fabled “blank slate” we sometimes hear about. For some reason, this kind of situation always creates a lot of consternation in my mind. This time around, I knew I had a lot I wanted to do, but I also […]
Progress feels better than stasis Read More »
Happy New Year, friends. I’ve written about the new years and New Year’s resolutions before. I’ve written about how resolutions are one of my favorite annual pastimes, and how I spend a great deal of time designing mine. But—I’ve let it get out of hand. Most sane and well-adjusted people you see on New Year’s
One word to define your year Read More »
We often look at our productivity journey as a solo effort. We tell ourselves that we have to bring the energy and motivation alone. And it’s true—a lot of an intentional and focused life is spent “alone.” No one else is there when our alarm goes off in the morning, after all. Even at work,
Find energy in unexpected places Read More »
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
A Day In The Life with RescueTime Read More »
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
The overwhelming power of Sunday Read More »
It was a tough year. Was 2021 a tougher year than 2020? Somehow, depending on your situations, it feels as though the odds are pretty good that it was. And whether it was tough for you or not, 2021 also felt like a particularly eventful year, where your life might have changed in one or
Go easier on yourself this year Read More »
Here at RescueTime, we always want to be sure to put our money where our mouth is. We know we give a lot of advice—especially here on our blog—about how best to navigate your work and your life. And as we’ve explored, as a company and as people, our own personal relationship to work, productivity,
How RescueTime joined the four-day workweek for fun and profit Read More »
We’re eighteen months in. That “new normal” everyone used to talk about has started to feel pretty hauntingly…well, normal. And even though we all bristled at the concept of “work from home” when it was debuted, at the time we didn’t truly know how it was affecting our collective performance. Now, reports are starting come
Prioritize your life’s balance over everything – especially now Read More »
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
The keys to staying productive with a full-time job Read More »
People say it all the time. Experts say it too. In fact, it’s said often enough, by so many people, that over the years it’s begun to feel commonplace and maybe even trite to our ears. But you know it’s true. Very simply: Exercise makes your life better in, like, a million different ways. Exercising
Start exercising from zero and improve your productivity Read More »
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