The Unfocused Life

Do you ever have those days when you are hyper focused on every­thing you do and things get done with no prob­lems? Those days are the rea­son that I cre­ated this blog. I cre­ated this blog because I am often unfocused. A year ago, before this blog, I would have told you that I lacked moti­va­tion and had excel­lent focus and the rea­son that I did not get things done was out of not want­ing to get those things done. After a year of look­ing at pro­duc­tiv­ity,... Read More

Do Not Prioritize: Just Do

I have been using a to-do list in one form or another since 5th grade. Tra­di­tional to-do list soft­ware, and even fancy to-do list notepads, will usu­ally have some way to pri­or­i­tize yours tasks. Over the years I have tried this rank­ing sys­tem off and on, and it has never worked, and is always useless. Mer­lin Mann, on an index card that read: Read More  Read More

Live Simply, and Save the Drama for Your Mother

Leo Babauta: You ever see some­one freak­ing out about a dead­line approach­ing, run­ning around the office to tell every­one not to bother them because they are try­ing to make a dead­line that is impos­si­ble. That is drama. It is counter pro­duc­tive, those peo­ple waste more time freak­ing out about the prob­lem, then it would have taken them to solve the prob­lem. This is what Leo is talk­ing about, every­one should read this post. via Zen Habitsr.  Read More

Email — You Used to Be Useful

Eight years ago, as I entered into col­lege, it was email that was my pre­ferred means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion. It was fast, easy, unob­tru­sive. This was the wave of the future and I was on it. Now fast for­ward eight years, and over twenty email addresses later — I am now of the thought that email is evil. This feel­ing has been build­ing for a while now, and reached a tip­ping point when I read on how he is ditch­ing email. I was inspired, and jeal­ous. I know... Read More

Time-Free Computing

Min­i­mal Mac web­site since it started up. He has posted a ton of tips on the site for sim­pli­fy­ing the look and feel of your Mac. One of the largest changes I have made thanks to this site, is remov­ing menubar icons, as I wrote about last week. The largest of those removals was get­ting rid of the clock. This has been one of the sin­gle great­est and most pro­duc­tive changes that I have made, since I started using OmniFocus. Com­put­ing with­out a Clock Read... Read More

We all have stress in vary­ing lev­els. Here are five quick ways to reduce your stress level right now. Do A Brain Dump Do the Quick Stuff Clean Some­thing Look at Your Life from Space  Read More

Mental Freedom

Gain­ing Men­tal Free­dom and Cre­ativ­ity through Notes and Lists Accord­ing to the dic­tio­nary pro­gram on my Mac, Stress is the Stress is a com­mon rea­son for peo­ple to seek help with pro­duc­tiv­ity and being pro­duc­tive and bet­ter orga­nized will lead to less stress. Too much stress can lead you to a break­ing point if you have no orga­nized sys­tem in place to help you deal with it all. This does not have to be any­thing more sophis­ti­cated... Read More