The top 10 lessons I learned from A Year of Productivity
100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive
Productivity Experiments
Watching 70 hours of TED talks in a week: 100 interesting things I learned
Watching 70 hours of TED talks in a week: 10 things I learned about productivity
Meditating for 35 hours in a week
Using my smartphone for 60 minutes a day (for 3 months)
Living in total isolation for 10 days
Drinking only water for a month
Working 90-hour weeks
Being a complete slob for a week
Taking a three-hour afternoon siesta
What you should wear to become as productive as possible
Guides
Guide: Everything you need to make and keep your New Year’s resolutions
100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive
Guide: Everything you need to start meditating
Interviews
Charles Duhigg on New Year’s resolutions (he wrote The Power of Habit)
David Allen on New Year’s resolutions (he wrote Getting Things Done)
Tim Pychyl on how to beat procrastination (he wrote Solving the Procrastination Puzzle)
Angela Wright: The exact color to paint your office to become the most productive
Productivity
The top 10 lessons I learned from A Year of Productivity
Here’s why you procrastinate, and 10 tactics that will help you stop
4 huge, hidden costs of becoming more productive
How to tame ‘springy’ life elements, the reason you never have any free time
Manage your time better
Use the Pomodoro Technique
Take more breaks!
The number of hours you should work a week to be the most productive: 35
Pick the right ‘hotspots’ to invest your time into
Use the ‘jobs-to-be-done’ theory to think about your life
Calculate your Biological Prime Time–the time of the day you’re the most productive
For every $18.12 you save, you buy back an entire day of your life (+ calculator)
Manage your energy better
10 ways to stay productive when you just don’t feel like it
Understand the concept of ‘flow’, and how to get there
Develop a ‘growth mindset’
Here’s how to get as much energy out of caffeine as possible
Think waking up earlier will make you more productive? Think again.
Health and happiness
5 simple habits that lead to more happiness
Why accomplishing more won’t make you any happier (and what to do about it!)
9 stress relief strategies that actually work
10 ways to solidify a morning wakeup ritual
9 brain foods that will boost your ability to focus
Why the light from your smartphone is keeping you up at night, and what to do about it
Why ‘active listening’ will make you more productive, and how to do it
A five-minute crash course on how to eat mindfully