A Master Plan for Taking Back Control of Your Life
Our willpower is a highly limited resource, and it gets depleted by every act that requires its use. We outline 8 steps you can take to maintain peak performance.
Developing Your Creative Practice: Tips from Brian Eno
What if you don't have a good idea today? Lessons in training and building your creativity muscles from legendary musician Brian Eno.
A Day Without Distraction: Lessons Learned from 12 Hrs of Forced Focus
What if you had to focus for at least 30 minutes on every single task that you did? Would it improve your productivity? Cal Newport takes hard focus for a test drive.
How To Set Smart Daily Goals
To achieve great things, we must constantly question how we spend our time and energy. Get started by asking yourself these six questions right now.
How Mundane Routines Produce Creative Magic
Can creativity be triggered? Find out how to heighten your ability to produce great work by tapping into the power of the daily routine.
How To Control Your "Check-In" Addiction
Do you find yourself constantly checking your mobile device with no real actionable outcome? Quick tips on increasing your efficiency and peace of mind.
Lab Rat: Do Your "Most Important Task" First?
Matching our most focused time with our hardest task makes sense, yet most of us do the opposite. We experiment with the “Most Important Task” first approach.
Creating Perfect Solitude for Creative Focus
"Alone time" unlocks our creativity. Five simple steps for carving out the headspace to focus and do your best work.
Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule
Is your creativity at war with your to-do list? Meet GCTD, a simple system for balancing meaningful creative work with mundane logistical work (e.g. email, meetings, etc).
What Daily Meditation Can Do for Your Creativity
Sometimes the best way to improve your performance is to do nothing at all. The creative benefits of calming your mental chatter.
Battling the Half-Life of Idea Execution
Is launching a new idea the same thing as "finishing" it? A reflection on the challenges of nurturing our ideas when the novelty has worn off.
Worry Only About the Problems in Your Circle of Influence
Stop spinning your wheels. By concentrating only on the stuff that you can influence directly, setting priorities and making progress becomes simpler
Reclaim Focus, One Day at a Time
To overcome “reactionary workflow,” we experiment with how to build laser-like task focus, day by day.
Generate Ideas In Moderation
Generating new ideas can be intoxicating, but it can also throw you off course and fritter away your team's focus on projects already underway.
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