Doing lots of reviews throughout the year is time-consuming, and can feel burdensome. It’s important to clarify what each one is doing, so you can be reminded of its necessity. This article shows the difference… Read More »The difference between Yearly, Monthly, Weekly and Daily Reviews
A Daily Review is a check of your inboxes, tasks and calendar, to make sure you’re prepared for the following day. You capture everything you need to do in the day ahead, then work out… Read More »How to do a Daily Review
A Weekly Review is key to staying on track with your longer-term goals. It’s the time to clear out your inboxes, so you know what needs to happen in the next week. It’s about making… Read More »How to do a Weekly Review
Fantasizing about all the things you’re going to achieve over the coming year is fun. But as anyone who’s made New Years resolutions will tell you, sticking to your goals is harder. This article will… Read More »How to do a Monthly Review
Introduction The most important thing I do for my productivity each year is a yearly plan. My daily, weekly, and monthly plans/reviews are mostly about execution, but the yearly plan is where I decide what… Read More »How to do a Yearly Plan
If you have things you want to do before you croak it, or generally want your life to go well, then you need to have an idea of what you’ve already done, and of your… Read More »How to do a Personal Yearly Review
One of the most under-appreciated things you can do to increase your happiness is to spend money on other people. This idea is largely based on a landmark 2008 study by Dunn et al that… Read More »How to buy happiness? Spend money on other people
This article is a rejoinder to my article on how I’m going to fail. It detailed 16 ways in which I thought my business – this website – would fail within the next two years.… Read More »How I’ll avoid failing
If you google ‘good study techniques’, you’ll quickly run into two things: spaced repetition and active recall. My original plan for this article was to write how the techniques work, and why you shoulduse them.… Read More »Why we fail to use the best learning techniques
The best change I’ve made to my life this year – and maybe in the past 10 years – is creating my own ‘Second Brain’. The Second Brain is an idea popularised by productivity guru… Read More »How to remember everything you learn