It’s probably safe to say we’d all love to get more results from less effort. Productivity is that elusive blend of efficiency and expertise that allows you to tick off to-do list items and hit gargantuan goals at an unthinkable pace. Here’s a collection of our best advice on how to work smarter, not harder.
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ben Wisbey, Managing Director of FitSense Australia. I came across his recent post about the relationship between his sleep and productivity, and thought it was really great example of how to do a meaningful personal analytics experiment. You can follow Ben on Twitter at @benwisbey. As a health […]
Workplace experiment: How does your sleep affect your productivity? Read More »
Working at a small startup can get pretty crazy. Awesome, but crazy. It’s way too easy to get pulled in a thousand different directions and end up feeling totally scattered and drained. Some would say that’s doing a startup right, but it can get downright exhausting. I felt this way recently, and I stumbled on
Create a weekly ritual to anchor your willpower and preserve your sanity Read More »
The other day, a friend of mine said to me “You know? I can’t remember the last time I felt really bored.” She spends hours a day on Reddit. I know. I see her posts and comments while I’m spending hours a day on Reddit. We do a lot to feel busy. We do a
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Keeping sane in the face of digital overload isn’t easy. There are a lot of things that look like quick fixes, but the gains they provide rarely last for more than a couple of weeks. I find that it’s usually a lot work to change my behavior and form good habits. Which is why I
Instant productivity (and sanity) boost. Lose the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps Read More »
As an engineer and a marketer, I’m in a unique position. I use my right-brain to develop creative ideas, but I’m left-brain dominate. This dominance is responsible for my need (not a want) to track EVERYTHING – especially my tasks. And as an engineer, I don’t just create lists, I create elaborate excel spreadsheets. Over
Productivity in the Workplace – Help My Brain is Full! Read More »
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably tried several different tricks to improve productivity in the workplace. And If you’re like me, many of the tricks you’ve tried haven’t worked very well. Maybe that new to-do list application makes you feel motivated for a week or so, but pretty soon you find you’re not using
Feedback loops: Your secret weapon for productivity in the workplace Read More »
After people have used RescueTime for a while, one of the most common time-sinks they report is email. It often comes as a pretty big shock, people think they check email a few times a day, and have no clue how it ultimately ends up eating up 30-40% of their time. Since it can be such
What can you learn about yourself from your email? Read More »
Around the RescueTime offices, we’ve been talking a lot lately about the external factors that influence your time on the computer. RescueTime is pretty good at helping you understand what you’ve been doing, but there’s a bit of a blank spot when it comes to the question “why were you doing it?” Last week, I
What outside factors affect your productivity? Read More »
One thing we’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately is multitasking and it’s effects on your productivity. There’s a fair bit of research that basically says that the human brain just isn’t terribly well optimized for doing more than one thing at the same time. Unfortunately, it’s often not something that seems like much
Multitasking. Good or Bad? Read More »
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