Have you ever felt overwhelmed by a task or project? Perhaps you need to write a report that requires a lot of effort to prepare. Or you need to do something you don’t like that seems big and difficult.
In such situations, there are two responses you might take. The first one is procrastinating. Procrastinating is [...]

Note: This is a guest post by Glen Allsopp of PluginID
With the current economic situation, we are all looking to get more done in less time. Bosses are working out which staff to keep and which to let go, ex-students are looking to shine for future prospective employers and people who work from home realise [...]

Have you ever feel overwhelmed in your life or career? Do you want to have more free time for your loved ones and still be productive? The Power of Less by Leo Babauta aims to help you do that. The goal of the book is to help you do less but achieve more. In the [...]

When talking about productivity, we often talk about how to do things efficiently to save time. While doing things efficiently could save you time in the short term, you may still lose time in the long term. The reason is that you lose more time not by how you do things but by what you [...]

Can you imagine being productive without setting priorities for your tasks? It may seem counterintuitive, but it’s a characteristic of Getting Things Done (GTD). The lack of priority in GTD makes it different from many time management practices that use things like ABC method to set priorities for tasks.
As I wrote in my review of Ready [...]

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 [...]