Productivity Articles - Get More Done
One of the topics I write about on my blog is productivity. Here are the productivity articles I have published in my blog so far (all 31 of them).
If any of them catches your attention, stop by Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online and read the whole thing. Also, once you're there, feel free to browse through the productivity and personal development articles as well.
(Photo of Moleskine courtesy of alt1040.)
If any of them catches your attention, stop by Abundance Blog at Marelisa Online and read the whole thing. Also, once you're there, feel free to browse through the productivity and personal development articles as well.
(Photo of Moleskine courtesy of alt1040.)
The Most Popular Productivity Methods
- The Pomodoro Technique - Transforming Time Into An Ally
- At a glance, The Pomodoro Technique looks very much like timeboxing. With timeboxing, you decide on a specific period of time, usually from twenty minutes to an hour, during which you work exclusively on one specific task. Once the time is up, you can choose to devote another "timebox" to that task, or you can choose to go do something else.
- The 10 Habits of Zen to Done
- Zen to Done (ZTD) is based on David Allen's "Getting Things Done" (GTD), as well as on the work of Stephen Covey and others. It's a set of 10 habits that will help you get organized, simplify your life, get things under control, and get things done.
- Time Management Secret: Do It Tomorrow
- Mark Forster is the author of "How to Make Your Dreams Come True" and the best-selling "Get Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play". In his latest book, "Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management", he teaches us how to get everything done by doing it tomorrow.
- Todoodlist: The To-Do List Made Simple
- Nick Cernis, owner of the blog "putthingsoff.com", argues in his eBook Todoodlist that, in order to be at your most productive, all you really need is a pencil and a notebook. A paper-based productivity system in the 21st century? Brilliant.
- Simpleology: The Simple Way to Get Things Done
- "Simpleology - The Simple Science of Getting What You Want" is a productivity system created by Mark Joyner which follows the basic tenet that simple, small things can have a profound difference in your productivity and in your ability to create happiness and success in your life.
Important!
"Do we have a shortage of time? No, we don't. Time is the medium in which we exist. To complain about a shortage of time is like a fish in the sea complaining that it has a shortage of water."
- Mark Forster
- Mark Forster
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Photo of Winnie the Pooh - the value of doing nothing courtesy of dougbelshaw.
Setting and Achieving Goals
- The Paint by Number Approach to Accomplishing Your Goals
- It is widely touted that goals have to be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely. However, even after we have written our SMART goals, we still don't know how we're going to achieve those goals.
But what if we had a roadmap telling us exactly what to do in order to achieve our goals, much like the "Paint by Number Kit" told us exactly which color went where? - The Hannibal Barca Approach to Achieving Your Goals
- Follow the Hannibal approach to achieving goals and forge your own path toward reaching your goals and objectives, in spite of any hurdles or obstacles you may encounter.
Creativity and Innovation Articles
Personal Development Articles
The Power of Full Engagement
In my article "Energy Management: Getting More Done" I make reference to this fabulous book. Time is the resource we most often turn to in order to meet the demands of life. For example, if your workload increases, you put in more hours. However, there comes a point at which you can't put in more hours because time is a finite resource. The good news is that there's a different resource you can turn to, and that resource is energy. Energy can be systematically expanded, and it can be regularly renewed.
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Amazon Price: $5.00 (as of 02/18/2012)
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Productivity Blogs
The Elasticity of Time
- The Elasticity of Time (Part 1)
- Although most of us are enslaved by the clock, linear time broken up into hours, minutes, and seconds is a creation of man.
- The Elasticity of Time (Part 2)
- Start thinking of yourself as having the power to determine, to a large extent, how quickly-or how slowly-you achieve the outcomes that you've envisioned for your life.
- The Elasticity of Time (Part 3)
- Perhaps the most important way in which to make time more elastic is by learning to take your time. Slow down the pace of life, live in the present, take time to develop your skills and talents, and simply resolve to live longer.
- The Elasticity of Time (Part 4)
- This is the fourth installment in the elasticity of time series in which I argue that we are not at the mercy of the passage of time; instead, we can take steps to make time more elastic.
Focus and the Flow State
- How to Enter the "Flow State"
- Thousands of people from every wake of like were interviewed by Dr. Csikszentmihalyi and his team in order to identify the key components of the flow state.
- How to Leverage the Power of Focus
- True productivity comes from being passionate about what you do and leveraging the power of focus. This article will show you seven ways to leverage the power of focus.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow
Routines and Rituals
- Morning Ritual: A Buffet
- A ritual is a set of actions performed in a predetermined order and manner, often thought to have symbolic value. Rituals are predictable and they give our lives order and structure. Having a morning ritual is a great way to start your day.
Stress and Productivity
- Five Stress-Busting Techniques for Busy People
- Use these five stress-busting techniques and lower your stress level.
- Five Amazing Stress-Busting Methods on YouTube
- Here are five (5) YouTube videos that demonstrate some of the best techniques you can apply right now to reduce stress, so just press "play" and follow along with the videos.
- Stress Management: 25 Ways to Relieve Stress
- Here are 25 ways to help you relieve the stress brought about my modern life.
Sleep and Productivity
Sleep Extravaganza - 40 Tools, Tidbits, & Resources to Help You Conquer Sleep
More Productivity Articles
- "No" Your Way to Increased Productivity
- Create a "stop doing" list. It's just as important to know what you're not going to do anymore--such as checking your email every five minutes or agreeing to do things which are not in alignment with your goals--as it is to know what your priorities are.
- Read with Greater Speed and Comprehension - PhotoReading
- The PhotoReading Whole Mind System-developed by internationally acclaimed expert in neuro-linguistic programming and accelerated learning, Paul R. Scheele-has been called the best reading improvement program available.
- Conquering Procrastination: The Now Habit
- "The Now Habit", written by psychologist Neil Fiore Ph.D., is a classic in overcoming procrastination. The book's essential message is the following:
"Procrastination is a mechanism for coping with the anxiety associated with starting or completing any task or decision. It is your attempted solution to cope with tasks that are boring or overwhelming. " - A Guide For Creating New Habits
- A habit is basically a set of actions that you carry out on a regular basis without thinking. In fact, scientific research has shown that when you carry out certain actions in a repetitive and continuous manner, neural pathways are created in the brain, making the habit almost completely automatic. The actions we carry out repeatedly form our habits, and then our habits create our lives.
- The 25-50-25 Rule for Getting Things Done
- The 25-50-25 rule says that to put what you learn into practical action, you must divide your time as follows: spend 25% of the time researching and studying the subject matter; spend 25% of the time observing; then spend 50% of your time actually doing.
- Productivity Tool: "Mise en Place"
- "Mise en place" (pronounced MEEZ ahn plahs) is a French phrase which basically means "to put the right things in the right place". It's used by chefs to refer to the process of getting things ready before they start to cook the meal. The concept of mis en place can be applied to almost any other area of your life to help you be more prepared, organized, and productive.
- Six Tips to Make Ideas Happen
- Ideas are plentiful. However, ideas that are seen through to completion are an entirely different story.
- Productivity and Foie Gras
- In the quest for doing more-which we often mistake for productivity-we often apply the rough equivalent of gavage to our own work methods. We work insanely long hours, skip meals, fail to get any exercise, stop by a fast food joint on the way home from work and get a burger and fries because we're too tired to shop for healthy food and cook, and so on.
- Productivity Tip: Think Small
- When you're feeling overwhelmed by a large project you need to tackle, make your action steps smaller and easier.
- Six Ways to Do Less and Achieve More
- In her book, "Do Less, Achieve More", Chin-Ning Chu explains that effort and ease are not in opposition, instead, they complement each other. In order to ensure maximum performance you need to strike a balance between "the effort of striving and the ease of fluid action".
- Increase Your Productivity by Learning to Manage Anger
- Not being able to self-soothe and let go of negative feelings can lead to many wasted hours stewing in unproductive emotions. By learning to manage your emotions-and for the purposes of this post, learning how to manage anger-you'll be freeing up countless hours and even days, weeks, and months.
- Three Awesome Productivity Tips
- From the plethora of productivity tips out there, I've chosen the three in this post to write about today since adopting these three tips will help move you quickly along the road to becoming awesomely productive.
My Creativity Ebook
Here Are Some of the Methods, Tips, and Resources You'll Find Inside:
* Three proven frameworks recommended by top creativity experts that will help you to generate ideas and find solutions to problems.
* Learn how to move sideways to solve problems by taking different perspectives, questioning your assumptions, and trying different points of entry. Stop trying to solve problems by digging deeper in the same hole.
* Create a "toolbox" of creativity techniques you can use to solve just about any problem.
* Discover the secret formula behind the amazing creativity of the world's most famous product design firm.
* Get lots of ideas on how to break out of your routine to look at problems and challenges with fresh eyes.
* Find out how to play your way to new ideas and laugh your way to solving problems.
* Learn how to approach almost anything creatively and how to see life as a series of opportunities for everyday creative acts: whether you're deciding what to wear, fixing dinner, or entertaining your child. The world-renowned psychologist Abraham H. Maslow called this kind of creativity "self-actualizing creativity".
* This ebook will teach you the secrets to get your ideas to reproduce like rabbits.
* Discover how to use visual thinking to get unexpected results (it's how Einstein developed the theory of relativity).
* Learn the traits that highly creative people share (it doesn't matter if you don't have these characteristics now, just fake it 'till you make it).
* Join the debate: is creativity work or inspiration? Learn how to skyrocket your creativity by answering that it's both.
* Learn tips on how to turn your ideas into reality.
* Get step-by-step instructions on how to enter the most effective creative state there is: the flow state.
* Discover even more ways to get your creative synapses firing.
* Learn how to move sideways to solve problems by taking different perspectives, questioning your assumptions, and trying different points of entry. Stop trying to solve problems by digging deeper in the same hole.
* Create a "toolbox" of creativity techniques you can use to solve just about any problem.
* Discover the secret formula behind the amazing creativity of the world's most famous product design firm.
* Get lots of ideas on how to break out of your routine to look at problems and challenges with fresh eyes.
* Find out how to play your way to new ideas and laugh your way to solving problems.
* Learn how to approach almost anything creatively and how to see life as a series of opportunities for everyday creative acts: whether you're deciding what to wear, fixing dinner, or entertaining your child. The world-renowned psychologist Abraham H. Maslow called this kind of creativity "self-actualizing creativity".
* This ebook will teach you the secrets to get your ideas to reproduce like rabbits.
* Discover how to use visual thinking to get unexpected results (it's how Einstein developed the theory of relativity).
* Learn the traits that highly creative people share (it doesn't matter if you don't have these characteristics now, just fake it 'till you make it).
* Join the debate: is creativity work or inspiration? Learn how to skyrocket your creativity by answering that it's both.
* Learn tips on how to turn your ideas into reality.
* Get step-by-step instructions on how to enter the most effective creative state there is: the flow state.
* Discover even more ways to get your creative synapses firing.
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ChrisDiamond
Jul 13, 2011 @ 1:20 pm | delete
- Hi Marelisa,
I like your lenses, voted +1 on this one! :-) I also read "The Power Of Full Engagement" and I think it is quite a revolutionary concept of Energy Management when it comes to "getting the job done."
I also checked your website, it is really well organized and it has a high rank in Google, perhaps you've been studying personal productivity for quite some time and posting things frequently.
Do you have your own products? To be an affiliate is easy these days... The magic comes when you create your own products, you already know a lot and I hope you are building an EMAIL LIST too, because that's going to help you to promote your blog and yourself in a HIGHER level.
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spuds
Nov 26, 2010 @ 8:38 pm | delete
- A good lens with links to some good articles. We could all do with being more productive.
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