Productivity

Takeaway: Try theming your days if you have many different (or competing) priorities that you’re juggling—or if you want to introduce more structure into your work. Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute 36s. Here’s a simple but powerful productivity tactic for you as you kick off the week: consider theming your days. This is especially powerful

Written by Chris Bailey Chris Bailey has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity and is the author of three books: How to Calm Your Mind, Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project. His books have been published in more than 40 languages. Chris writes about productivity on this site and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they

Takeaway: Throughout the day, be aware of how you spend your time. One way to increase your time awareness is to create an hourly awareness chime on your watch or phone. Or ask, on a regular basis: What did you spend the last forty minutes doing? Estimated Reading Time: 1 minutes, 41s. What did you

Takeaway: Broadly speaking, two types of distractions and interruptions derail our productivity: those we can’t control and those we can. Some of these distractions/interruptions are annoying, while others are fun. Proactively deal with the distractions you have control over and change how you respond to ones you can’t control. Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes, 15s.

Takeaway: You become a better writer by actually writing—not by writing and then leaning on AI to clean up everything you wrote. Technology can help us become better writers. But we shouldn’t be leaning on it for the heavy lifting—especially when writing well is an essential skill and component of knowledge work. Estimated Reading Time:

Takeaway: Inbox zero is not the best use of your time and attention (though there are a few exceptions to this). You can’t stay at inbox zero—and our most productive work usually happens outside of our email inbox. Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes, 20s. One of the sexier ideas out there in the productivity space is “Inbox

Takeaway When you get a bit of time throughout the day, set a timer, and then blow through as many email messages as you can. When the timer finishes, shut down email until the next sprint. Estimated Reading Time 1 minute, 35s. My favorite email productivity tactic is to do email sprints. The idea is simple. When

Written by Chris Bailey Chris Bailey has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity and is the author of three books: How to Calm Your Mind, Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project. His books have been published in more than 40 languages. Chris writes about productivity on this site and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they

Takeaway: Productivity advice is great, but make sure it actually makes you back time. Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute, 59s. Productivity advice is great—usually. But there’s a point of diminishing returns. If you spend four hours every day on some “productivity system” you’ve built, all that time will really eat into the time you would

Written by Chris Bailey Chris Bailey has written hundreds of articles on the subject of productivity and is the author of three books: How to Calm Your Mind, Hyperfocus, and The Productivity Project. His books have been published in more than 40 languages. Chris writes about productivity on this site and speaks to organizations around the globe on how they