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Twelve strategies for achieving your goals from the book Willpower

From unclutterer: One of the topics covered extensively in Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength is goal setting and achievement. The book’s authors Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney...

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Clutter can kill creativity and innovation

From unclutterer: With all the talk on unclutterer.com recently about willpower, I wanted to bring in career expert and author Jonathan Fields to write about the connection between order and workplace...

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The Thought Leader Interview: Sylvia Nasar

From strategy+business: The renowned author discusses how the great economists uncovered the basic truth about progress, prosperity, and productivity, and the reasons you should be careful which ideas...

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Uncertainty, innovation and the alchemy of fear

From Jonathan Fields at 99%: The ability to live in the question long enough for genius to emerge is a touchstone of creative success. In fact, a 2008 study published in the Journal of Creative...

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5 ways to turn fear into fuel

From Jonathan Fields at zenhabits: Like it or not, though, uncertainty is the new normal. We live in a time where the world is in a state of constant, long-term flux. And, that’s not all. If you want...

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Productivity tip: Begin with a cleared surface

From unclutterer: The first step of mise en place, before you pull out a single ingredient from the cupboard or turn a dial to heat up your stove, is to put away everything that you don’t need. Clear...

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Compact calendar 2012

From David Seah: a versatile planning calendar that is easy to customize and print with Microsoft Excel. It comes in three different week styles, and is localized for different countries by volunteers...

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The myths of the overworked creative

From Tony Schwartz: Time is finite, but we act as if it were otherwise, assuming that longer hours always lead to increased productivity. But in reality our bodies are designed to pulse and pause - to...

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10 ways to find more hours in your day

From Dumb Little Man: Helps you find more hours in your day for the things that really matter.

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David Allen: The mind is for having ideas not holding them

From the author of 'Getting Things Done' at Do Lectures: Unlike a computer, we can not add more RAM to our brains. So we have to free up RAM so we can think more. David Allen gives us a system to set...

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Lessons In productive procrastination

From FastCompany: Frank Partnoy describes himself as an inveterate procrastinator -- and the banker/lawyer/author is not convinced that’s a bad thing. His book Wait: The Art and Science of Delay is an...

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What successful people do with the first hour of their work day

From FastCompany: How much does the first hour of every day matter? As it turns out, a lot. It can be the hour you see everything clearly, get one real thing done, and focus on the human side of work...

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Stay productive and organized while working from home

From David Caolo at unclutterer: The following are ten tips that keep my work on track when I’m at home.

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Seven ways to cope with stress

From Deb Lee on unclutterer: David Allen says, "A reason a lot of people are feeling overwhelmed is because people are not in true survival or crisis mode as often as they have been in much of our...

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Relax! You’ll be more productive

From Tony Schwartz in NY Times: More and more of us find ourselves unable to juggle overwhelming demands and maintain a seemingly unsustainable pace. Paradoxically, the best way to get more done may be...

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The importance of scheduling nothing

From Jeff Weiner, CEO at LinkedIn: In aggregate, I schedule between 90 minutes and two hours of these buffers every day (broken down into 30- to 90-minute blocks). It's a system I developed over the...

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Productivity in the modern office: A matter of impact

From Knowledge@Wharton: More than 50 years after management guru Peter Drucker first wrote about the difficulty of defining and measuring the productivity of knowledge workers, management experts say...

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Why productive people have empty schedules

From FastCompany: What's the one resource you can't borrow, invest, or recover? Time. Lessons on guarding yours by Warren Buffett, Peter Drucker, Charles Dickens, Reddit CEO Yishan Wong, and others.

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Creative people say no

From Kevin Ashton: Time is the raw material of creation. Wipe away the magic and myth of creating and all that remains is work: the work of becoming expert through study and practice, the work of...

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From Beethoven to Woody Allen: Daily rituals of the world’s most creative people

From FastCompany: Beethoven and Woody Allen bathed their way to genius. Dickens (and just about everyone else) walked. And you don’t want to know how Thomas Wolfe got the juices flowing. Mason Currey,...

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