Discovering Your Productivity Profile
Discovering your productivity strengths, and weaknesses.
Discovering Your Productivity Profile
Articles about Productivity
Dealing With a Crushing Workload
Dealing With a Crushing Workload
How to handle increased expectations and pressure.
The Four Capacities (with Robert Glazer)
The Four Capacities (with Robert Glazer)
How to elevate your performance.
Do You Know Your “Red Zone” Activities?
Do You Know Your “Red Zone” Activities?
A few small activities can determine success or failure.
Circles of Influence and Concern
Circles of Influence and Concern
How to deal with organizational decisions, cultural forces, and other things that live outside of your ability to influence.
Your Head Is Not For Holding Ideas (with David Allen)
Your Head Is Not For Holding Ideas (with David Allen)
The keys to stress-free productivity.
Feeling Undisciplined? Here’s Why.
Feeling Undisciplined? Here’s Why.
The three reasons that many creative pros struggle to get moving.
Three Questions You’re Probably Not Asking (But Definitely Should Be)
Three Questions You’re Probably Not Asking (But Definitely Should Be)
Those who ask the best questions ultimately win. There are some questions that are obvious. These are the ones that directly affect our work and its outcomes. Then, there are questions that hover just beneath the surface of our work, and rarely get asked. On this episode, we share three questions that you're probably not asking, but definitely should be.
How To Plan Your Days For Max Creativity
How To Plan Your Days For Max Creativity
How you spend your time is how you spend your life.
How To Plan Your Week For Max Creativity
How To Plan Your Week For Max Creativity
Do you have a good game plan for how you'll spend your week?
Getting Rid Of “Monkey Mind” (with David Allen)
Getting Rid Of “Monkey Mind” (with David Allen)
How to engage appropriately with your work.
Three Ways to Break Through In 2019
Three Ways to Break Through In 2019
Creative paralysis, or “block”, is often the result of inattention in a few key areas.
The Weight Of What’s Undone
The Weight Of What’s Undone
The weight of all of your incomplete projects and partial ideas can weigh heavily on you if you're not careful. On this episode, we discuss a few strategies for dealing with that weight.
Using Time Chunks To Master Your Days
Using Time Chunks To Master Your Days
The best way to ensure that your most important work gets done is to dedicate time to doing it.
Dropping Insecurity Work
Dropping Insecurity Work
I first heard the phrase "insecurity work" from Scott Belsky a number of years ago. He defines it as work that has no intended outcome, doesn't move the ball forward, and is quick enough to do without realizing. It's most common to slip into insecurity work when you feel overwhelmed or perhaps even unequal to the creative task at hand, and it gives you the illusion of progress but actually robs valuable resources necessary to produce value. On this episode, I share three sources of insecurity work and how to recognize and address them.
Four Ways To Reclaim Creative Energy
Four Ways To Reclaim Creative Energy
When was the last time you purposefully pruned your life (and project list) so that you had the time, focus and energy you needed for your most important work? Doing this on a regular basis is difficult, because each pruned idea and project feels like you’re abandoning a child, but this kind of ruthless dedication to energy management is what’s required in order to sustain over the long-term. On today's episode we share four quick questions to help evaluate a project for potential prune-ability.
Why Many Creative Pros Struggle With Discipline
Why Many Creative Pros Struggle With Discipline
Discipline is sometimes perceived as a “dirty word” because it’s interpreted as pushing through the muck, doing the unenjoyable activities first, and forgoing the chocolate cake for the steamed broccoli. However, I think this is a gross misunderstanding of the word. Discipline simply means making an agreement with yourself, and keeping it. On this episode, we share three reasons why creative pros often struggle with discipline, and what to do about it.