How to do a Weekly Review
A Weekly Review is key to staying on track with your longer-term goals. Itโs the time to clear out your inboxes, so you know what needs to happen in the next week. Itโs about making… Read More »How to do a Weekly Review
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A Weekly Review is key to staying on track with your longer-term goals. Itโs the time to clear out your inboxes, so you know what needs to happen in the next week. Itโs about making… Read More »How to do a Weekly Review
Fantasizing about all the things youโre going to achieve over the coming year is fun. But as anyone whoโs 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 youโve already done, and of your… Read More »How to do a Personal Yearly Review
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
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
Productivity is hugely important. At the personal level, being just 2% more productive frees up a whole extra week per year. And if we were more productive as a species, we could be richer, solve… Read More »Why you should care about productivity
I read a lot of self-improvement books. And while I usually enjoy reading them, the main point is to improve your life in some way. The best self-improvement books make you behave differently, or at… Read More »The 5 books that have most improved my life
Even if you’re a fairly organised person, I’m sure you’ve had plenty of times – as have I – where you find yourself with 50 browser tabs open with loads of things you want to… Read More »How read it later apps help you consume better content
We all know it’s not cool to be a hoarder. But getting rid of stuff is painful. There’s a sort of FOMO every time you throw something away, because there’s always the chance that you’ll… Read More »How to use the archive folder