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…
A few weeks ago I wrote about the danger of being obsessed. There I wrote that there are three states we can possibly be in: lacking focus, being focused, and being obsessed. The best state is being focused but there…
Have you ever experienced wasting your time without realizing it? You started working on something, but in the midst of it you were distracted by something else. The next time you checked the watch, one hour had passed and nothing…
On the Easter weekend, I went out of town and spent several days at my parents’s home. There I enjoyed the holiday away from my normal routines. While usually I have a set of daily routines related to my work…
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James The art of nonfinishing (which Tim Ferriss mentioned in The 4-Hour Workweek) is a key to productivity. We are productive not because we accomplish many…
Use your attention wisely. It will make or break your life. Attention management is one of the most important skills you should master in your life. Manage your attention well and it will give you tremendous success. Manage it badly…
Often it is not the things that we don’t do that hinder our productivity, but rather the things that we do. There are productivity pitfalls in which we might be trapped without realizing it. Recognize and avoid them before they…
Have you ever experienced working hard on something but achieving very little? You may have poured a lot of time and energy into it, but the results you get is below your expectation. On the other hand, you may have…
The Pareto principle is a very well-known principle for productivity. In essence, it says that 20% of the causes gives 80% of the results. The implication then is to focus your effort on that 20% causes that gives 80% of…
Have you ever had this kind of experience? You got up in the morning willing to have a productive day. You turned on the computer, and before you knew it, you already spent one hour browsing the Internet without even…