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 [...]

Note: This is a guest post by Mary Jaksch of Good Life Zen.
Do you try to keep too many balls in the air? I do. I try to stuff at least two lives into one. I’ve tried various ways to accomplish this without stress, but it’s only now that I’ve found the answer: [...]

Marco sent me an email recently:
The last weeks I have worked on my “trusted system” and I looked for the best software and hardware to use.
Currently I’m using:
- MediaWiki
- gtd-php
- Abakt
- Palm Vx
- Scanner Cannon 4400F
- FileServer running Linux Ubuntu 8.0.4
- Additional backups on external hard disk
(I’m still looking for [...]

Justin wrote this comment on my post Ask the Readers: What Productivity-Related Problem Do You Have? :
I’ve found that not getting things done is sometimes almost as important as getting things done in productivity. When people request too much of me, I have a hard time telling them no without killing the relationship. Yet if [...]