Deep Work is a well written book that not only explains why being able to perform extended periods of distraction free work is important and becoming more so, but also offers real world tactics for putting this into action. Cal Newport, the author, breaks down Deep Work by explaining what it is: Professional activities performed…
Join us live each week at www.productivity.academy/live and get your questions answered by submitting them at anytime right here: www.productivity.academy/questions. You can watch the video for the past episode recorded on May 17th above, or you can review the transcript below. Hey everybody. This is Adam with The Productivity Academy. It is the 17th of…
If you’re like me and have more than 1 Gmail account you know that it can be a pain sometimes. You’ll get logged out, or you find yourself distracted and checking emails in various accounts and labels….it can be annoying and a big time waster! This is where Shift comes in – you can download…
All right, we are live. I’m trying to get this up and running. I am going to fix something real quick and then we will get started. Live, let’s edit that. Doing stuff for the first time is always fun because getting the process down is kind of crazy. All righty, hopefully if you’re…
Good news – I’m starting the weekly live productivity, process, and the reasons we do all this live weekly webinar. You can find out more about it by watching this short video that I recorded on Facebook: For now, the plan is to have the videos live on Facebook at 9 am EST every Wednesday,…
Batching? Are we cooking? Nope – we’re taking on something that comes right after prioritizing / triaging. What we want to accomplish is putting like tasks next to each other in our schedule so that we’re not mentally hopping back and forth and wasting time. I know, from personal experience, that this may not…
Today is the day – I’m moving…which is normally cause for a lot of anxiety and stress, but there’s also an upside. It enables me to take a better look at my belongings and sort through them more objectively to see what I’m actually using, what is important to me, and what is just…
We all know that we want to be more productive, right? Have you thought about the big picture ideas behind that? Hopefully you’re like me and you have something else that is pushing and motivating you instead of just getting more done for the sake of getting more done. Why are you trying to…
If you’re like me then you enjoy reading and want to learn more but know that there are only so many hours in a day. Not only that, but you’re not sure if the latest “how to” or productivity book is worth reading… What can you do? Well, one thing you should do is…
I was getting tired of making notes in Todoist or Evernote or my notebook for actions with emails that would only take a minute or two when I got a reply or received the right information back – I know that I try to close the loop on tasks that take less than a…
