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Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Someone stopped me the other day and said, “I don’t get it. What do simplicity and productivity have to do with each other?”
It’s a simple answer: no waste.
Is Productivity Effectiveness or Efficiency?
Productivity boils down to two parts: effectiveness and efficiency. Effectiveness means doing the right things, and efficiency is [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

In my quest for a saner and simpler life, I have come across ten blogs that I believe are must-reads for anyone interested in simplifying their lives. Here they are, in alphabetical order:
Clutter Control Blog
Stacks and Stacks Clutter Control is a blog written by many organizers (including some of [...]

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

A few weeks ago I had someone who is not following productivity look over my site, to see what she would turn up. Her one suggestion (thanks, Mom!) was to make it easier to get started.
Consequently, I went back through the posts and figured out what I thought would [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Personal productivity has gone mainstream, and is riddles with jargon and abbreviations that are often hard to decipher. Here are some of the more common ones:
Common Abbreviations in Productivity
7 Habits
7 Habits refers to Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. It was a ground-breaking look at [...]

A couple of weeks ago I read two articles that really struck me. I wrote about them in Aids for Genuine Productivity and Simplifying Productivity, and I formed a resolution to focus on the whys and hows of productivity and simplification; in fact, simplification of productivity can itself be considered a “how”!
As I was [...]

Simplifying is often times about getting down to basics. I am reminded of an essay in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (aff) that Robert Fulghum wrote where he said that he would pit his elderly chopping bowl and knife against a new-fangled food processor. Often times we buy things that [...]

I was reading an article over at Lifehack.org called “The Trouble with Productivity”, whose title caught my eye. The article made me think. Author Lisa Gates says,
“I feel that much of what passes for productivity is simply ubercybersonic doingness dressed up in happy faces.”.
I have felt that at times. I get so much done. I [...]

Earlier this year I was struggling with my schedule. I found myself in survival mode because of a family health crisis, and realized that many of the things I do every day are not essential to keeping life going. I examined my schedule and found that I was doing a lot of things.
However, the productivity [...]