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Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

One of the keys to having a productive life is finding enough time to recharge. Here are 16 ways that I find more time for my projects and relaxation.
 
 

Unplug the computer. I waste many hours on the computer, checking email, reading articles and surfing. While some of this activity [...]

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

When it boils down to it, being productive is about managing our commitments. Everything that we do requires us to commit to it on some level. Even taking out the trash is a commitment, since we commit our bodies to moving a bag from place to place.
Spoken Or Acknowledged [...]

Two weeks ago, when I came home from work, I found our Roomba had committed suicide. It had flung itself down the stairs and was laying, face down on the stair landing, one wheel laying a few feet away. I’m not sure what caused the machine to go to such drastic measures…I’m pretty sure that [...]

I was wondering one afternoon why work-life balance has become such an issue in our modern lives. The answer is actually very simple: changes in the way work is done now blurs the lines between work and non-work time.
Back In the Day
Starting with the industrial revolution, work began to be done in workplaces, mainly [...]

Within 24 hours last week, two comments floored me. The first was from a good friend, who looked at me and said I was exhausted, but how could I not be, after all I had been through in the last year? And was it any wonder I was irritable and short-tempered? The second was from [...]

I spend a lot of time at the computer. My job is all computer, and I find myself writing and doing other things on the computer at night. This isn’t necessarily healthy, though. I realized a couple of weeks ago that I needed to make sure my down-time activities were more deliberate, and away from [...]

Photo by Bethany L KingI have often been challenged by the concept of work-life balance. It seemed to me that this should be implemented like a pie chart, applied daily. So much time for work, so much time for relaxation. I realized that this is not always possible on a day-to-day basis. There are days [...]

Originally published on 21 April 2007.
Before I found Flylady, I functioned as I had been taught. I would give, give, give, and end up overworked, stressed out, and worst of all, a martyr. I put everyone’s needs before myself, and it showed.
One of the first emails I read from Flylady repeated the old airline mantra: [...]