routines and rules

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Even if that title made your cringe, I bet you have some pretty basic routines and rules in your everyday life.

One of the hardest things for me since starting my business is getting into a normal routine.  In fact, my favorite thing about working for myself is the flexibility. But this lack of routine has [...]

productivity experiment: my dailies

In an overdue follow-up to my rant about dailies (part of my Productivity Experiment) about how all the little tasks can interfere with being productive, I’m posting a collection *my* dailies.

First Caveat: Admittedly, this is mildly cathartic and totally self-indulgent.  For those of you who are thinking “sheesh, like what I really wanted to do today [...]

organization + happiness

While pondering my productivity experiment, I’m coming to the conclusion that happiness is both an ends and a means to productivity and organization:

Ends: Why do we want to be productive? Because it’s satisfying. It makes us happy.  Or, whatever being productive gets us (career advancement, a final product, money, peace, more time with our family), [...]