Tag: Productivity


  • The cure to boredom

    It’s a global phenomenon in the western world: an increasing number of employees feel disengaged at work. They clock in, clock out, check in, but feel checked out. The workload is there, ever amounting. There is always more to do but they don’t feel any motivation to do it. What’s happened?

  • Think less, do more – Why?

    3 reasons to stop overthinking things.

  • Social media automation 101

    Got an online business? Does your work involve social media management? Going on holiday or want to focus on something else for a while? Or maybe you just want to spend less time on social media? Wouldn’t it be great if you could automate your social media management? Well you can! I’m not just talking about linking…

  • Brains VS Brawn – What exercise does to your brain

    Brains VS Brawn I’m sure you’ve heard it suggested or even explained with great conviction that in life you have to choose between the two. You may have heard that brawns particularly are cultivated at the expense of brains. It maybe that this was based on the anecdotal evidence that some sporting personalities seem to…

  • 3 Videos to Help You to Crank out your A game

    3 strategies and tips to be a productive powerhouse. And they cost nothing!

  • The one rule to getting results

    If we don’t have this skill, everything takes us longer and is harder. Yet it is simple to cultivate. Everyone can do it.

  • 4 rules every creative should know

    If you are a creative, I bet you’re familiar with the following scenario. You’re staring at the screen or blank piece of paper,  but your brain isn’t coming up with the goods. The screen/paper is staring back at you. You hold your head in desperation, even massage it, as if it were Aladdin’s magic lamp! In today’s post, I…

  • The myth of positive thinking debunked

    Say what? “How could I write such nonsense?”  I hear you questionning. Bear with me. Let me explain. I am not saying that positive thinking (or negative for that matter) doesn’t affect your actions, life or results. Far from it. It definitely matters how you think. Trevor Maber illustrates this well in this Ted-ed clip.…

  • Do you think that making lists is for a particular type of person: the CEO, his /her secretary, or -I’m being politically incorrect here- the plain  boring individual, with a life devoid of spontaneity or creativity? I certainly did at one time. Would it surprise you to know that even for a creative, having a…