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Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

A friend of mine, struggling with organization and an insane schedule, has been balking at setting up basic routines to help her out. “They will limit my freedom and creativity” is something I have heard more than once.
But I believe that having routines actually frees up and creates pockets [...]

I live near a city park, where neighborhood children and their mothers gather in the afternoons. Most of the mothers don’t work outside the home, and they gather for non-child interaction. Recently the conversation turned to Facebook, and how wonderful it was to communicate with others (including with the other women having the conversation). One [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

As I looked back through my Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book, I realized that there are some universal truths in it that can apply, and should apply, for anyone interested in being productive. While I officially no longer practice Getting Things Done, for the majority [...]

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

We all have them. Projects that sit around on our lists with no progress, because we simply cannot find the time to do them. We’ve tried breaking them down to the absolute next granular action, and still that will take a good bit of time. What is a productive [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

I recently had cause to go back and look something up in my copy of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. I have pretty much rejected the whole GTD theory for my personal life because of the way I work. Yet as I thumbed through the book, [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Productivity is about being effective and efficient. That is, doing the right things in the right way. I’ve been trying to apply these concepts not just to managing my work load, but also various side projects in my life.
With spring upon us, my thoughts naturally turn to gardening. Unfortunately, [...]

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog.

In the past few weeks several people have asked me for organizational advice. My super-organized mother instilled it in my upbringing, making it almost second nature to me. But one of my friends complained that she hadn’t been trained as I had, and needed to know how I did [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

I ran across an article over at Stepcase Lifehack: “Your Guide to Apps that Eliminate Distractions“. Always distractable, I look out for things like this. — particularly the first two, which lend themselves to distraction-free writing.
Major Writing Distractions
To me, the two biggest writing distractions are things outside my writing [...]