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6 Productivity Hacks You Should Try This Year
After tools, I get most excited about little tricks I discover for saving time or getting more done. These are six of the discoveries I made last year that you may want to try: #1 Make your environment inviting I am extremely cold averse. As I was setting up a writing...
6 Productivity Tools You Should Try This Year
I love productivity books, blogs, and podcasts, but I REALLY get excited about productivity tools that make my life easier. Here are six that I was crazy about in the past year that you may want to try too. #1 Timeful Scheduling is the number one way I get things done...
6 Productivity Podcasts You Should Listen to This Year
Even though I had my own podcast, I wasn't much of a podcast listener until this last year. Now I'm crazy about them! These are six productivity podcasts I enjoy and you may, too. #1 The 5 AM Miracle with Jeff Sanders I do NOT get up at 5 AM, but I don't have to in...
6 Productivity Blogs You Should Read This Year
The truth is, we don't always have time to read full-length books to improve our productivity. That's where blogs come in. In just a few minutes, we can have the inspiration we need to get more done. Here are six of my favorite blogs from last year that I recommend...
5 Days of Productivity Favorites
I love to write about productivity and miss the Year of Living Productively series and some of the great articles that followed like these: 6 Important Habits for Getting More Done A Better Daily, Weekly, Monthly To Do List Get More Done With a 1-Thing To Do List...
6 Productivity Books You Should Read This Year
I have read so many productivity and organizing books that I started to think I can't learn anymore, but boy was I wrong! It isn't that the concepts are completely new; it's that the personal insights and presentation are. I had a hard time limiting myself to six, but...
Top 10 Psychowith6 Posts of 2014: Did You Miss Any?
I love to write, but I really love to write about the topics that matter most to you. The top 10 most popular posts help me determine that. Did you miss any of these? If so, click the title to read them. Here's to a great new year of discovery and sanity-savers. Thank...
How Do You Make Improvements When You Are Already Productive?
Francis Wade, author of Perfect Time-Based Productivity, guest posts today. If you missed his post on Why College Students and CEOs Manage Time the Same Way, be sure to give it a read. When you are someone who is already more productive than most people you know, how...
The Peace & Joy Challenge: Week 52
The year of organized homeschooling has come to a close and now we can have a peaceful, joyful Christmas. More than that, I hope that by employing these challenges, you have enjoyed a more peaceful year. If you didn't get to many of the challenges this year, there is...
Bringing Mr. Popper’s Penguins to Life: A Unit Study and More
My youngest three kids read Mr. Popper's Penguins for the literature class we do with another family. Two of my kids also completed a unit study using the book through a larger homeschool co-op. They enjoyed it, but I was stunned when the book unexpectedly came to...
The Company Clean Challenge: Week 51
Do you have company coming for the holidays? Even if you don't, this week we will get your house company clean (well, I'm actually not going to come and help you, but I can tell you what to do!). The holidays will be more enjoyable if everything is in order. But don't...
Opposite Advice for Getting More Done
I was reading a question posed on Mark Forster's forum about whether doing the opposite of what others generally do is effective when it comes to productivity, and I realized that I have found that it is. Here is the advice I have NOT followed with great results. #1...