How to Create an Ideal Home Office You’ll Want to Work In
Home office ideas and tips that will keep you focused On the surface, working from home as a freelancer sounds like a dream: noise and disruptions associated with the office environment are eliminated, commute time is whittled to the time it takes to walk from bedroom to desk, and you can spend less time in […]
How to Harness the Power of Minimalism to Become More Productive
Do less and accomplish more by applying minimalist principles to your life. For some, the term “minimalist lifestyle” brings to mind a scrawny monk wearing a tattered robe in a barren room with no WiFi. However, minimalism is not about living in squalor, eschewing material goods and technology, going vegan, or backpacking the world. Rather […]
The Ultimate Guide to Building Good Habits that Stick
Our habits play a major role in forming our personality, mood, and achievements. Here’s how to form good habits and hold on to them. When praising the power of habits, life coaches, psychologists, and writers alike are fond of quoting Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a […]
4 Brilliant Ways to Make Decisions Easily…and Fun
Techniques to Be More Decisive I recently spent a fun afternoon with a group of 5 old friends from my college dorm . It was really nice to catch up with people I hadn’t seen in 15 years, and it was even nicer that I stumbled upon a cool topic to write about. It was interesting […]
8 Productivity Blogs You Shouldn’t Miss in 2017
The Best Productivity Blogs To Help Keep You Organized Bonus Material: How to Become A Successful Blogger! Personal branding coach, Bernard Kelvin Clive, summed up a problem that we all face on a daily basis, “We don’t manage time, we manage activities within time.” No matter what we do, time will move on. All that we […]
Reality Transurfing – Harness the Power of Positivity to Overcome Procrastination
Positive Thinking…Really? ‘Just stay positive!’ ‘Just think positively and everything will work out!’ ‘The power of positive thinking!’ To a life-long pessimist such utterances may seem intolerable. Despite sounding practical on the surface, such expressions may seem like nothing more than warm and fuzzy nonsense that people say when they can’t think of anything impactful. This kind of happy talk […]
7 Steps to Bring Your Work-Life Balance into Sync
How to Achieve Work-Life Balance in a Digital World According to Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, “most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important”. It is too easy to forget that there is a difference. Just because we (or our […]
A Yard is Hard, But an Inch is a Cinch – A FocusMe Success Story
A FocusMe Success Story with Freelance Content Writer Steve I wanted to highlight a reader success story after receiving an email from a very satisfied customer. Proud FocusMe user Steve is a content writer who USED to have a productivity problem. He NEVER missed a deadline, not even once, but he did have a big […]
A New Spin on Discipline
If you are like most people you probably wish you could be more disciplined. It is a natural assumption that more discipline leads to better time management and improved productivity, but let me tell you why this isn’t necessarily the case. A while back I had a chance encounter with a spiritual master who […]
The Benefits of Deep Work and How to Establish It
After stumbling across an interesting article entitled “Why Deep Work Matters in a Distracted World” I found myself cataloguing just how much time is lost to shallow work (read more here). By shallow work, I mean doing work (in my case writing), while: People are present I’m listening to music I have multiple projects open at […]
