A Productivity Ninja is not a superhero. None of us have superhero brains, either. We also know – usually from our own painful experience – that we’re all too capable of forgetting important things, making bad decisions because we’re swamped with other things to think about or just not finding the time to focus on
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[Productivity Ninja] Email Management – How Inbox Zero Works
Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth about the way that we work. As soon as more than one thing has our attention and we experience information overload, our instinctive reaction is that we want to feel busy to feel like we’re making progress. Because as a species we’re inherently lazy, we gravitate to the easiest
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[Productivity Ninja] How to Manage Your Attention and Get Things Done
It’s often thought that good ‘time management’ is the key to productivity, success and happiness – but somewhere along the line, the game changed. We now live in an age of constant connection and information overload with inputs that would have been staggering to comprehend even ten years ago: 24/7 email, social media, voicemails, instant
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[Productivity Ninja] How to Achieve and Maintain Total Calm
Great decision-making comes from the ability to create the time and space to think rationally and intelligently about the issue at hand. Decisions made during periods of panic are likely to be the ones we want to forget about. The Productivity Ninja realises this, remains calm in the face of adversity, and equally calm under the
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The 9 Characteristics of the Productivity Ninja
Guest blogger Graham Allcott, author of “How to be a Productivity Ninja,” discusses the 9 characteristics that lead to ninja-level productivity. It’s often been said that good time management is the key to being effective at work, but the old time management theories no longer work: we live in the age of information overload, where
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