I was recently reading Benjamin Hardy’s article about waking up early. He makes many good points, but I can’t help think he is missing a huge caveat. While waking up early can help you, not getting enough sleep will wreck you. Not getting enough sleep messes with your body in so…
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Time Saved. Time Lost.
I have been thinking about how the coronavirus pandemic has changed my life. There are lots of big and small ways. Have you thought about how the pandemic has changed time for you? There were things you used to spend your time on, but…
Continue reading →How Much News Is Too Much News?
I have always prided myself on being someone who does not need to delete apps. You know, someone who deletes Twitter or Instagram every few months so they can avoid getting lost in that and instead focus on creating something. I am lucky enough…
Continue reading →Time Tracking with Timeular
View fullsize Click to enlarge. Lately, I’ve been trying a new time tracking gizmo, a Timeular device. It’s a polygon-shaped piece of plastic and electronics that connects to my iPhone. I can assign a different task to each side, and when I switch modes,…
Continue reading →Recovery Day
One of the oldest (and best) pieces of productivity advice is to always plan on a recovery day after a trip. It is such an obvious idea that I hesitate to even post about it. Nevertheless, it is advice that I seldom followed ……
Continue reading →My Six Month Planning Wallpaper
I talked about planning wallpaper recently on Focused. I’ve been doing this for a few months now and find it a good way for me to keep my big projects rolling. All of these items are already in my calendar. I know these dates…
Listen & read notes →Moving the Needle
Do you ever have one of those days where it feels like you worked all day and yet got nothing done? It happens to us all, and it can be frustrating. We all have things we’d rather do than be working and there can…
Continue reading →Intentionality
Earlier this month I celebrated my birthday. For a while now I’ve treated my birthday like my own personal New Year’s Day. What I mean by that is I often reflect on what’s working, what’s not working and things I’d like to change going…
Continue reading →Hyper-Scheduling Feedback
I’ve had a lot of feedback about my prior posts about the hyper-scheduling experiment and implementation details. Here are the prior links: The Hyper-Scheduling Experiment Hyper-Scheduling Mechanics This whole thing has turned into a short series here at MacSparky.com. There may be another post…
Continue reading →On Focus
Last year I noticed my priorities were out of whack and I spent several months woodshedding the latest productivity books and websites as I sorted myself out. One prevalent theme throughout the productivity world as of late is how to keep yourself focused. Keeping…
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