I’ve been applying Getting Things Done (GTD) (from the book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen) for about two years now. I can witness – as many people do – that it tremendously increases my productivity while minimizing my stress.
That’s why I was eager to read another [...]

Are you expecting better results in your life? Do you want to achieve more in your career and relationships? I think most people do (and I’m no exception, of course). Most people want to be more successful in whatever they do.
Unfortunately, it’s not easy to get the results we want. We may work [...]

We have now been in the last week of June and soon we will enter July. In July, I will accept guest posts here on Life Optimizer. So, if you are a blogger, you may consider participating.
You may notice that recently there are two guest posts here. The first one is How to Boost Your [...]

Note: This is a guest post by Arjun Muralidharan of The Productive Student.
I have the classic problem of ‘thinking about being productive, but not putting it into action’.
That’s what’s troubling Life Optimizer reader Kashmira. The deeply ingrained problem here is procrastination, or the behavior of deferring tasks to a later time.
Deferring [...]

Being more productive is essential to improve your life. It enables you to produce more value out of your life so that you can give more and in turn receive more. It makes your life more fulfilling.
Of course, it’s not easy to be more productive, but the effort is well worth it. [...]

One of the most common pitfalls to productivity is procrastination. While being productive means accomplishing something, procrastinating is just the opposite. If we procrastinate, nothing will get done. Time will pass by without results and before long we may notice how far behind we have been left by others.
Here is a [...]