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The simple secret to meditating (or doing anything) every day
To meditate (or do anything) every day, shrink the length of a session until you no longer feel a mental resistance to it.
Several email plugins that let you schedule sending email later
To manage people’s expectations (e.g. that you don’t work past 5pm, or respond to email after work hours), install a send-it-later plugin for your email client.
Here’s why you procrastinate, and 10 tactics that will help you stop
I recently interviewed Tim Pychyl, a world-renowned procrastination researcher, about why we procrastinate and what we can do to stop. Here’s why you procrastinate, and 10 tactics that will help you stop.
10 huge productivity lessons I learned working 90-hour weeks last month
Here are the 10 biggest productivity lessons I learned working 90-hour weeks in February!
Experiment: The top 10 things I learned drinking only water for a month
For the entire month of February I drank only water as a productivity experiment. Here are the top 10 things I learned.
The best latte I’ve ever had
For the entire month of February I drank only water as a productivity experiment, so when March 1st rolled around, I drank all of the coffee and tea I could get my hands on.
The Zen of Waking Up Early: 10 ways to solidify a morning wakeup ritual
Over the past few months, I've integrated a morning wakeup ritual into my life. Here are the 10 tactics that have helped me the most.
Two simple, non-corny visualizations that will motivate you to be more productive
As corny as the practice sounds, visualizations will help you get in the right mindset to become more productive. Here are two of my favorites.
To be more creative, don’t set traditional goals, set “process goals”
Setting process goals, as opposed to regular goals, will allow you to be much more creative.
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