Articles
Recent Picks
I’ve written hundreds of articles (with no ads) to help to you manage your
time, attention, energy, and more. Here are a few of my favorite recent ones!
- How to Calm Your Mind is out now!
- You can now preorder my next book, How to Calm Your Mind!
- My website just got a whole lot better
- For optimal productivity, be on break for 20-25% of the workday
Podcasts
Time & Attention Podcast
Becoming Better is a podcast dedicated to making you a better human being.
- Podcast: How to build your attention span
- Podcast: How to get into a flow state
- Podcast: Chatting about the flip phone experiment
- Podcast: 5 tactics for more tranquility in your life
How to Calm Your Mind
Tame Anxiety and Overcome Burnout—While Saving Time
My third book, How to Calm Your Mind, is a treasure trove of practical, science-backed strategies that reveal how the key to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, is a calm state of mind.
Hyperfocus
Learn how to be more productive in a world of distraction
My second book, Hyperfocus: How to be More Productive in a World of Distraction, provides a fresh angle on how to do more with less. It serves as a practical guide to managing your attention – the most powerful resource you have to get stuff done, become more creative, and live a meaningful life.
The Productivity Project
Accomplish More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. In my first book The Productivity Project, I offer 30 tried-and-tested techniques to help you accomplish more.
Helpful Reading
Recent Articles
The Rule of 3
The problem with a lot of productivity and time management systems is they require a lot of overhead, but the "Rule of Three" doesn't. It's one of the simplest, most powerful time management techniques I've come across lately.
F.lux – the must-have, free application that will make you sleep better
Using your computer, smartphone, or tablet late at night messes with your sleep, but sometimes you just have to get a bit more work done (or watch one more YouTube video). Don't worry, though, this dead-simple program is here to help.
How to kick bad habits by making them “more expensive”
People hate losing what they have, but that's not entirely a bad thing, because you can use the awesome power of "loss aversion" to your advantage to lose weight.
6 wacky productivity experiments I’m conducting over the next year
My goal isn't only to write about productivity over the next year - it's to live it. So I'm not just going to post quick hacks that I've found useful, I'm going to dive right into productivity and use myself as a guinea pig to see what works and what doesn't. Here are six productivity experiments I'll be conducting.
Easy Win: Discover exactly how productive you are on the computer with this free app
If you don't know how you're spending your time on the computer, chances are you could be wasting a lot of it. Enter RescueTime, a free, simple utility that will show you exactly where your time goes.
What is the very next thing you’ll do after reading this blog post?
Picking the next thing to do is hard. Where the hell do you start? It's helpful to have a process you can follow that will guide you in the right direction, and David Allen provides two of them in his book, Getting Things Done.
What’s the point of becoming more productive, anyway?
Writing about productivity blindly is a little like writing about being pregnant. I will never know what that's like, and so writing about it would be pretty pointless. The same goes for this project.
Use this simple trick at your next presentation to make your audience instantly pay attention
Most presentations are boring, and as a part of my business degree I've listened to countless presenters drone on while a boring screen filled with boring words sits behind behind them. This quick trick will get your audience to focus back on you.
It sure is fun to jump head-first into something
Yesterday was an exciting day. A couple of minutes after sending out a bunch of messages to friends about launching A Year of Productivity, the site went down for several hours. But it did get a lot better, and a lot more fun.
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Time & Attention
Life’s a project—why not become better at it? Explore the latest episodes of my podcast Time & Attention below.
Keynote Speaking
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