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Schedule a GYLIO session
Ask how and when you're going to attend to the task. Whether you call it 'power hour' or GYLIO, bundle small, unrelat...
How to reduce 'attention residue' in your life
Divided focus
Having multiple tasks on your mind splits your attention and that can reduce overall performance. This is known as "a...
How to reduce 'attention residue' in your life
Get back on track
GYLIO is a way for students to approach their problems with juggling so many opportunities colleges offer, from sport...
How to reduce 'attention residue' in your life
Get Your Life In Order (GYLIO)
Many of us battle with the never-ending nature of our to-do lists. We feel overwhelmed because life admin is endless ...
How to reduce 'attention residue' in your life
Make Boring Tasks More Interesting
You tend to start daydreaming spontaneously when you don’t have something harder to do. To make boring tasks more eng...
Bored with Your Job? The Recipe for Enjoying Your Work | Scott H Young
Make Frustrating Tasks Easier
Work tasks are rarely chosen by you, so they rarely have optimal difficulty. To make them more likely to produce flow...
Bored with Your Job? The Recipe for Enjoying Your Work | Scott H Young
The State of Flow
Being in flow means focusing your complete attention on the task in front of you. It is an underrated aspect of our h...
Bored with Your Job? The Recipe for Enjoying Your Work | Scott H Young
Overcoming Productivity Shame
Disconnect your Self-worth from your achievements. Set realistic, effective goals: The three elements of goal...
Productivity shame: Why you never feel like you've done "enough"
Causes of Productivity Shame
We link our products to our self-worth, thinking that we need to get more done, and our self-esteem depends upon it. ...
Productivity shame: Why you never feel like you've done "enough"
The Spiral of Productivity Shame
Productivity shame is a feeling that you are not doing enough, whatever the number of hours you are working, or the n...
Productivity shame: Why you never feel like you've done "enough"
"If you don't prioritize your time, then someone else will."
How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn't
Flag Your Priorities
Take ownership and reclaim your time, choosing where you can best spend your time and energy. You can analyze your l...
How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn't
Prioritize Your Work
Prioritize the tasks with the highest value addition and impact, while being in your 'high passion' list. Tolerate t...
How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn't
Self-Managing Our Priorities
We need to take ownership and set priorities of the existing workload ourselves. Our priorities can be divided ...
How to Prioritize Your Work When Your Manager Doesn't
Developing Adaptation Skills
Adaptation skills are tested/developed in high-pressure or challenging situations while maintaining one's calm. Tie...
Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
Developing Arrangement Skills
Developing your arrangement skills isn't about managing your work, but about managing your life, taking control of it...
Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
Developing Awareness Skills
The key factor to consider when developing awareness skills is that effectiveness (doing things well) is as important...
Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
Steps To Improve Time Management
The way to improve your Time Management skills requires us to figure out where to focus . This can be done by: Getti...
Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
Prerequisites for Effective Time Management
Trying to apply time management tools without having prerequisite time management skills is unlikely to work effectiv...
Time Management Is About More Than Life Hacks
It might be your chronotype
If nothing you do can change your sleep patterns, it might be your chronotype, where you are naturally more productiv...
A (Former) Night Owl's Guide to Becoming a Morning Person
Track your mood to see the gains
Once you start your changed routine, track your mood, energy levels, and sleep habits for about two weeks. How you f...
A (Former) Night Owl's Guide to Becoming a Morning Person
Have something to get up for
Schedule something fun or desirable to look forward to in the morning before work. It could include coffee, th...
A (Former) Night Owl's Guide to Becoming a Morning Person
Learn to love a good night's sleep
When trying to change your sleep habits, don't give up too soon . Keep it up for a week. The days will get easier, an...
A (Former) Night Owl's Guide to Becoming a Morning Person
The problem with staying up late
Long days can leave us tired and exhausted. But, our days would be less hard and exhausting if we weren't so tired th...
A (Former) Night Owl's Guide to Becoming a Morning Person
Overcoming procrastination
The next time you're tempted to procrastinate, focus on this question: "What is the next action I would take on this...
Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
Adverse consequences
Procrastination leads to two primary consequences. It's stressful to keep putting off important tasks and failing to...
Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
Short-term mood lifters
Studies show low mood only increases procrastination if enjoyable activities are available as a distraction . In othe...
Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
Procrastinating and emotions
According to traditional thinking, procrastinators have a time-management problem. They are unable to understand how ...
Why procrastination is about managing emotions, not time
More hassle than help
Distinguish between a lack of inertia and persistent exhaustion. If you push yourself to the gym but feel good afte...
Too Tired to Do Everything? How to Live Better Without Burning Out
Doing 'everything'
You cannot do everything you should. It is okay to acknowledge that time for one activity means less time for another...
Too Tired to Do Everything? How to Live Better Without Burning Out
Being too tired
There are two different types of feeling tired. The feeling you have as you're about to start an activity. Once you...
Too Tired to Do Everything? How to Live Better Without Burning Out
Hidden contradictions of life advice
In practice, adding too many suggestions for living well will create a conflict with each other. Suggestions ...
Too Tired to Do Everything? How to Live Better Without Burning Out
Productivity guilt
Productivity guilt happens when you feel overwhelmed by not attending to all the things you know you "should" be doin...
Too Tired to Do Everything? How to Live Better Without Burning Out
Reluctance to Change Activities
Being late is a symptom of the reluctance to change gear , where you don't want the current activity to end and...
Beat the clock: the surprising psychology behind being perpetually late
Being habitually late
Some people are habitually late because that's how they are, terrible at being punctual . It may be that the pun...
Beat the clock: the surprising psychology behind being perpetually late
Benefits of the Flowtime Technique
You can use your Flowtime data to see how much time you're dedicating to different types of tasks. This can help you ...
If the Pomodoro Technique Doesn't Work for You, Try Flowtime
The Flowtime Technique
It is a modified Pomodoro. And it solves Pomodoro's big problems. It works by writing down one task you intend to w...
If the Pomodoro Technique Doesn't Work for You, Try Flowtime
The Problem with Pomodoro
Pomodoro is excellent for tackling tasks you don't feel like doing or jobs that require little thought. However, ot...
If the Pomodoro Technique Doesn't Work for You, Try Flowtime
The Pomodoro Technique
Pomodoro is doing focused work in 25-minute sessions throughout the day. After each session, take a five-minute break...
If the Pomodoro Technique Doesn't Work for You, Try Flowtime
What Self-Care Means
Self-care essentially means tuning in to our true needs, and making them a priority , rather than neglecting them in ...
Why You Don't Need More Time for Self-Care
Your Communication is Your Life-Line
Clear communication is the life-line of remote working. Physically, a WFH employee or a freelancer is not part of th...
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Getting in Work Clothes
It is common advice to get up, shower and dress for work, in your work clothes. This too creates a form of mental tra...
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
A Space at Home for Work
Devote a space solely dedicated to work , maybe a desk or a room converted into an office. This will train your brai...
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Social Interruptions
Your family and your friends will not understand why you would need to prioritize work, or at what time. They ca...
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Set Time Constraints
Set pre-determined completion targets and time constraints to finish up your work, otherwise, you will get distracted...
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Start Early and Mimic Office Time
The schedule that makes you start early, and mimic the office hours works best, as you end up being free earlier too....
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Working is From Anywhere
WFH (Work From Home) eventually means you are working from coffee shops, parking lots, from your car while driving, a...
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Working From Home
Working from home means that all the chaos of your home (pets, family members, kids, and kitchen noises) is part of y...
How to Stay Productive When You Work From Home
Unplug after 90 Minutes
Unplugging or taking a break after 90 minutes is not opposing your work in any way, but is a part of your work. Taki...
Why You Need To Unplug Every 90 Minutes
90 Minute Cycles
The 90-minute cycle works well for most of the demanding and creative work, as follows: Morning practice is essentia...
Why You Need To Unplug Every 90 Minutes
The Ultradian Rhythm
Your brain can only focus for 90 to 120 minutes before it needs a break. This is the ultradian rhythm, a cycl...
Why You Need To Unplug Every 90 Minutes
Work Cycles
Humans have imagined themselves as machines, doing work linearly, and continuously. We aren't machines, but organism...
Why You Need To Unplug Every 90 Minutes
Meeting Rules
Meetings should be short and crisp with a specific purpose/agenda and should just be a reason to gather. There should...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive
Time Blocks for Communication
Text-based communication should have time-blocks: like an hour, twice a day, where we check and respond accordingly. ...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive
Mails and Priorities
Most email falls in the category of other people trying to get you to do something. And ideally, we shouldn't be sp...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive
Be Distraction-Free
If while working, we see an email or notification, it derails our focus even if we don't do anything about it. An en...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive
A Deep Work Routine
Setting specific times for employees to get into the deep work zone and establish certain rules that promote pure cre...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive
Collaborative Notes
Instead of the unstoppable email back and forth, using a collaborative tool or notion can lead to more productivity a...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive
Email is not Real Work
Real work, by definition, should be rare, valuable and cognitively demanding. Email does not check any of these box...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive
Facilitate Deep Work
A few smart strategies that can be deployed: Installing pods for deep work while having common areas for collaborati...
This is Why the People Who Work At Your Company are So Unproductive