Rory Marinich’s hedonstic variation of the Getting Things Done system of time management and productivity.
When you focus on producing, you ignore the importance of everything but production. That’s just as unhealthy as not producing. Sure, it might get you doing some of the menial bullshit you’d rather avoid, but if you’re filing important creative [...]

We could save ourselves much hassle if we knew exactly how and where to invest our time and effort.
Resolve now – now – never to iron a shirt in your life: make this your starting-point, your irreducible core, and find another way. Sick animals are almost always going to die. A struggling shrub or [...]

An illustrated breakdown of car maintenance operations during a typical seven-second pit stop in Formula One racing.
In the seven seconds it takes to complete an average Grand Prix pit stop, a driver will get four fresh tires, a tank of fuel, an inspection to remove debris from nooks and crannies, and maybe some shiny [...]

This is interesting, people who procrastinate aren’t actually doing nothing, they’re often busying themselves with a plethora of smaller tasks, which are usually less relevant, or not relevant at all to what they are meant to be doing.
From outside, it sometimes appears that I manage to produce a lot of content. At least, [...]

I’m not sure about going to sleep at 10pm (I feel I’m mid-stride at that time) or waking up at 5am, but Benjamin Franklin did, and his achievements speak for themselves.
When you’re a person who works alone, and whose fortunes are completely dependent on your own day-to-day productivity, it can be very easy to [...]

A time management idea to try. Set a goal, work in 25 minute blocks (or pomodoros), and then take a break. After four “pomodoros” take a slightly longer break.
For many people, time is an enemy. The anxiety triggered by “the ticking clock”, especially when a deadline is involved, leads to ineffective work and study habits [...]

With the likes of social networks, email, news feeds, IM, web browsing, and Twitter, constantly vying for our attention, and tempting us away from what we should be doing, focusing on our work can become a real challenge.
Completely shutting off these distracting applications isn’t the answer though, for some of us they are the very [...]

Time management, getting things done, and how to work more efficiently, are matters that are frequently on my mind.
Each evening before I finish work for the day I draw up a list of what needs to be done the next day. I often find myself managing to cross off maybe only two-thirds of the items [...]

Why I’ve ditched the to do list
The arrival of a baby, together with the unpredictable and unexacting demands that go with the territory, has brought about a re-evaluation of existing time management practices for Flying Solo editor, Sam Leader.
Now, when baby’s asleep and something needs doing, I’m prone to just do it. Instead of [...]

This is interesting.
When reading is bad for you, by Megan Tough at Flying Solo.
Reading has an insidious way of filling all the cracks in our day. If we are reading, we can tell ourselves that we are actually working. In fact, there’s a good chance we are simply wasting time.

I guess it depends who exactly [...]