Archive for the Productivity Category

Prevent Backsliding By Finding Your Killer Instinct

Posted on July 29, 2010 by GuestPost

This is a guest post by Sam Spurlin, of The Simpler Life. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. A lot of personal development advice seems to revolve around the concept of improving areas of your life that are completely messed up. If [...]

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Taking Breaks for Productivity

Posted on July 26, 2010 by LJ

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. This wasn’t the article I had planned for today. The fact is, I’ve been struggling for the last few weeks, trying hard to fill out the editorial calendar. But the words wouldn’t come. It wasn’t until I was in the middle of my [...]

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Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress

Posted on July 19, 2010 by LJ

There’s an old wives’ tale that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out, but if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it to boiling the frog will allow himself to be boiled to death. The [...]

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10 Ways to Be Productive During Down Time on the Job

Posted on July 15, 2010 by GuestPost

This is a guest post by Rachel Vidrine, author of Mind Meditations, a blog about psychology and human behavior. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Do you ever find yourself bored at work? Most jobs have some down time between projects or [...]

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Efficient Lunches: Assembly Line Lunches

Posted on July 12, 2010 by LJ

When my daughter started kindergarten and I had to send lunches, I tried to be creative. I had all sorts of “fun” foods, varying things often, balancing items in the lunches. When my daughter came home one day, about three weeks after school started and said, “Mommy, can I just [...]

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How Not To Form a Habit: Buy Stuff

Posted on June 28, 2010 by LJ

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. I’ve done it. Almost everyone I know has done it. We want to start a new habit. So the first thing we do is go out and buy something. We want to start walking every day. So we go out and buy fancy [...]

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