productivity

In the wise words of Dolly Parton, "Working nine to five ... it's enough to drive you crazy if you let it." If you want to avoid the driving-you-crazy ... Read More »

Being busy with work and coming home stressed out and exhausted is a vicious circle that is not only hard on your health by raising stress hormones, ... Read More »

I used to work at a shop where approximately half of the employees were smokers and half were not. The smokers used to take extra breaks and longer ... Read More »

Where is sleep on your list of priorities? Is it even on your list of priorities? Besides being busy busy busy all the time, these days it seems like ... Read More »

Don't you hate when you're working through a problem, or trying to generate new ideas, and your brain won't seem to work? While you might be compelled ... Read More »

Between being self-employed, having a family, and keeping fairly active, I feel like there's always something important that I'm forgetting to take ... Read More »

There's been plenty of spin-offs on the popular book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People -- some helpful, some not. If nothing else, this ... Read More »

We always focus on making lists of things we need to do and inevitably end up feeling stressed out and overwhelmed by it all, when in reality a "not ... Read More »

I have been toying with the idea of trying polyphasic sleep. The promise is less sleep overall, with few ill-effects from the added time. By taking ... Read More »