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Ok, so that title is probably a little dramatic. But you know the days/weeks/months I’m talking about. Things just seem to keep flying at you one after the other – health scares, relationship problems, work instability, financial insecurity. Sometimes these things space themselves out nicely, so you’ve got adequate time Read more…
Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot of fun until you get the bill. – Christopher Parker But is it really any fun? In a world where we’re all so overwhelmed and time poor, procrastination can mean the difference between marching in place and creating the life you’ve Read more…
Think that multi-tasking is a great, productive idea? Think again… It feels pretty damn good to tick task’s off our to-do list, doesn’t it? That little hit of feel-good dopamine has us feeling like we could leap off tall buildings. Or at the very least like we’re winning at life. Read more…
One of my favourite self-care productivity practices that I use every single day, is automation. When a lot of us think of automation we think of setting up computer programs and platforms to perform tasks – like, for example, email automations and auto responders. But automation doesn’t have to be Read more…
This blog post is brought to you by a recovering perfectionist – me! Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is your best. I don’t know if like me, you were forced to recite this little ditty at school when you were Read more…
It can be easy to forget that we’re not task-completing robots. We are in fact all human beings with human brains, living human lives. Which means mistakes are normal and to be expected. There’s no one-size fits all… When it comes to productivity there are no right or wrong, one-size Read more…
The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, once famously said: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln Now old Abe was not (at least to my knowledge) an avid woodsman. But he was a Read more…
I feel inspired, nay compelled to say something… Productivity is not a dirty word. Scrolling through my Facebook feed this morning whilst enjoying my coffee with cream, I came across this article: You Can Quit Hustling – Your Productivity Does NOT Determine Your Worth And it got me a little Read more…
Distraction is a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. According to Google I like to think of distraction as a passive concept. It’s not something you actively do (like procrastination) but is actually something that happens almost by accident. We all know that distraction is bad and Read more…
As you work to develop your personal productivity muscle it is really important to be aware of procrastination and distraction which really are productivity’s two greatest arch nemeses and despite what you might think, they are actually two very different concepts. In this blog post, I will be discussing procrastination Read more…