“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.” (Jean de la Bruyere, French essayist)

A day spent striving toward your goals is a day well spent. Productivity is often thought of as a workplace issue, but our definition of the term encapsulates the entire scope of professional and creative achievements you might be striving for, from attaining a great work-life balance to nailing that presentation to starting your own company to writing that novel on Estonian cauliflower farming. Anything you might be striving for. The posts in this section don’t merely help you to do more, but rather to achieve more of the things you want.

Here are the productivity chapters published so far:

• Are you a slave to your inbox?
• Change your habits, change your life
• A place for everything and everything in its place
• Rocking your time management
• Outsource your memory to free up capacity for thinking
• Attaining the impossible through the possible
• The Pomodoro-technique – time-management made simple
• Why we wish you a non-productive holiday
• Naptastic – sleep and productivity
• Nutrition and productivity – slaying the post-lunch zombie
• Presenting like a pro – Let the structure do the convincing
• The back of the napkin – solving problems with pictures
• Action Required: How to write awesome emails and save a ton of everybody’s time
• The inbox vs. the mailbox – How snail mail can show us the absurdity of our email habits
• Meetings – Avoiding the biggest waste of work-time since Minesweeper
• The summer of summaries – How you can make reading fun while improving your focus and memory