Setting the Scene for a Productive Day
Your desk setup and surrounding environment play a huge role in your ability to focus and produce great work. A look at how to "script" your space for creative success.
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Workspace Design
On Keeping It Simple
You can't have productivity without simplicity. Tips on reducing brain clutter so you can focus on the work that really matters.
Why Creative People Need to Be Eccentric
Do you ever feel like your regular habits are a little bit crazy? We investigate why eccentricity is essential to doing great work.
Brainstorming 2.0: Making Ideas That Really Happen
Brainstorming shouldn't stop when the new ideas rain down. To truly make ideas happen, we have to articulate an idea execution plan and then ask hard questions.
What's Your Back-Up Plan?
Do you backup your creative work in a haphazard manner? Crossing your fingers and hoping for the best? It's time to get smart about data redundancy, or pay the price.
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.
Reconsider Your Workspace
Research shows that different spaces facilitate different types of thinking. We break down how to navigate the workspace to stay focused and motivated.
Surround Yourself With Progress
Rather than dispensing with to-do lists and action steps, we recommend preserving them as an inspiring testament to progress already made.
Advertise Action to Yourself
Your time is precious currency, and there are many other activities competing for your attention. How are you going to advertise action to yourself?
Setting Up Action Areas
Taking action steps into the physical world, we experiment with setting up "action areas" to house anything that requires execution.
References Are Overrated
While the compulsion to save reference items is strong, we rarely return to them once they're filed away. Our unscientific study revealed mostly dust.
