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Articles
Recent Picks
I’ve written hundreds of articles (with no ads) to help to you manage your
time, attention, energy, and more. Here are a few of my favorite recent ones!
- The Resistance List
- 5 lessons I learned switching to a flip phone for a month
- What happens doesn’t matter all that much
- The productivity payoffs of a calm mind
Podcasts
Time & Attention Podcast
Becoming Better is a podcast dedicated to making you a better human being.
- Podcast: All or Something Thinking (Replay)
- Podcast: How to Get Unstuck
- Podcast: Our phone home screens
- Podcast: The highest-leverage tasks in your work
The Productivity Project
I’ve written three books to help you become more productive, focused, and calm:
Available in 13 Languages
Hyperfocus
I’ve written three books to help you become more productive, focused, and calm:
Available in 31 Languages
How to Calm Your Mind
I’ve written three books to help you become more productive, focused, and calm:
Available in 31 Languages
Helpful Reading
Recent Articles
The front page of ALOP just became a bajillion times more helpful
A couple of weeks ago I hired a wicked-talented programmer to make the front page of ALOP a lot more helpful. While I crank out fewer...
Pick This Up: David Allen’s revised Getting Things Done book comes out today (+ interview!)
Takeaway: The new edition of David Allen's Getting Things Done book comes out today. It's completely rewritten to account for how the world and our work has changed since the book was originally published in 2002. This book has never been more...
How to Stay Productive When Everything Goes to $&@%#
Takeaway: A few weeks ago, I broke my ankle traveling overseas. For a couple of weeks my productivity was shot, but what worked better than anything else to get me back on my feet was setting intentions for what I accomplished every day,...
My Favorite New Year’s Ritual: Creating an Accomplishments List
Every year around this time, with...
For every $18.12 you save, you buy back an entire day of your life (+ calculator)
Takeaway: Saving money is basically a way of buying back your own time. If you're 30 (the average age of a visitor to ALOP), and you retire at 62 (the US average), for every $18.12 you save today you buy back one day of your life in the future....
Announcement: I’m writing and publishing a book with Crown Business, an imprint of Penguin Random House
When I think back to high school English class, it...
10 ways to stay productive when you just don’t feel like it
Takeaway: To stay productive when you just don't feel like it, zoom out to see how a task fits into the bigger picture of your life; be mindful of how aversive a task is to you; be mindful of how negative your self-talk is; give yourself permission...
10 killer ways to tame your email inbox
Takeaway: 10 killer ways to tame your email inbox: Keep a tally of how many times you check your email every day for a week; keep all of your emails to five sentences or less (and make a note of it in your signature); don’t check for new email...
Article Roundup: 9 solid articles that will improve your focus
This week was Focus Week on A Year of Productivity - a whole week's worth of posts dedicated to improving your focus. Click through to read the nine articles I wrote about improving your focus!
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Time & Attention
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