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I’m happy to announce the launch of Productive Magazine. The first edition features David Allen, the author of bestselling book Getting Things Done on the cover. Once you crack the ePages of this eMagazine, you’ll find myself among 17 excellent authors sharing our articles on productivity, happiness, GTD, and ways to increase the quality of [...]

When we use the internet, it is important to protect ourselves against the onslaught of people providing us with more information than we actually need. When it comes to productivity principles and really getting things done, all you really need to know are the fundamentals!
Simplicity is the key ingredient in productivity, and living a great [...]

A Guest Post by Danny Gamache, The Success Professor (http://www.successprofessor.ca).  Danny is a business professor at a private college where he equips students for careers in business and success in all areas of life.
One of the most effective tools that I teach my students about how to analyze a business situation is to do a [...]

Editor’s Note: This is a guest article by Richard Johnson.
“I don’t think of work as work and play as play. It’s all living.”
~Richard Branson, founder of Virgin
Ah, drive. It’s that thing which successful people have, isn’t it? It’s that mad gleam in the eyes of those at the tops of their fields. From Steve Jobs [...]

If you’ve come here with the intention of ending your life you’ve come to the right place. However, instead of the usual ‘how to end your life’ guides I’m going to list some of the ways in which you’ve already been killing yourself.

“To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is [...]

For one reason or another, we’ve all been stuck in a lazy rut. From productivity guru to average-joe, we’ve all faced our share of down time. Ever since I came back from Israel I’ve been feeling pretty lazy, and just thinking about not being lazy hasn’t fixed the problem.
Laziness is ultimately caused by a fault [...]

Let us walk together for 60-seconds as we explore what’s simple and effective in time management and productivity. Beyond the horizon, past the new-age mambo jumbo, there is level of simple achievement that any of us can obtain.
The key is to recognize, capture and utilize the fundamentals, to take what works, and get rid of [...]

“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
~Baltasar Gracian
While the amount of things we want to see, do, smell, taste and touch exceeds all but our imagination there are still just 24 hours in each day.
Time flies by and many times people find themselves at the end [...]

“In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.”
~Henry Wadsworth
We spend too much, own too much, and want too much — it’s the human condition — and as long as we aren’t aware of it we’ll be a slave to the cycle. Being the ingenious little critters that we [...]

“So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating effect.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt
During the past few months my productivity has [...]