Articles tagged "Personal productivity"

How to Make Tasks Matter and Find Meaning in Your Work

When your alarm clock starts buzzing, and your inbox is already packed with pressing requests, what pulls you out of bed and into your 8x10 cubicle? Paying the bills is a powerful motivator, but ultimately, it comes down to personal meaning.

Forget Mornings: Here’s How to Design the Best Afternoon Routine, According to Research

Do you get up at 4am to work before the rest of the world wakes up? Does your morning routine include meditation, cold shower, coffee? Here's why you shouldn't forget about your afternoons.

How to Share Your Internet Connection

The internet doesn't always just work.

7 Scientific Ways to Make Better Decisions

From ordering coffee and choosing a suit to evaluating job offers and pursuing business opportunities, we’re assaulted with decisions nearly every second of the day.

Finding Flow: 5 Steps to Get in the Zone and Be More Productive

Ever had a moment—perhaps while writing, designing, or working through a complex problem—where you're so focused on a task that the world around you disappears and you're perfectly focused? It feels like you're on autopilot. Nothing can go wrong.

Stay Calm: How to Become More Emotionally Resilient

Business isn’t personal, right? In a perfect world, we’d be able to separate our emotions from our work. But we can’t compartmentalize our feelings for after-hours like a computer.

The 5-Day Sprint: How to Jump Start a New App, Website, or Project

Our sprints are based on fundamentals of deep work, precise scheduling, and efficiency.

3 Ways to Boost Your Team's Productivity and Avoid Burnout

We’ve all read our fair share of articles claiming they have the _o**ne key secret _to supercharged productivity. However, a bunch of these so-called productivity hacks have, in fact, been found to damage team efficiency in the long run.

7 Science-Backed Ways to Take Better Breaks

It wasn’t until moving to London that I started eating lunch at my desk.

Ace College and Your Career with These 6 App Workflows

There’s no denying it—software and technology play a massive role in pretty much every industry. Yet even while software know-how is becoming a standard requirement for jobs, most colleges won't teach you even the basics of popular business software.