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The Student Introduction To Mindfulness
Student life comes with a lot of pressures. You need to study, figure out a career path and immerse yourself into a new environment – in three short years. It’s a tough challenge, and can often make you feel a little out of control. Today is the University Mental Health Day, which began in 2012…
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5 things at 5
Over the weekend, Think Productive turned 5 years old. Here, founder and chief Productivity Ninja Graham Allcott looks back at the last five years. 5 things at 5… On the 20th April 2009, Think Productive was officially born. I’d been dipping my toe into productivity for a few months before that, inspired by the likes…
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Forget all meetings – except these ones
We talk a lot at Think Productive UK about avoiding meetings, and ways to achieve the goal in a different way. However, we mustn’t overlook the times when only a meeting will do. READ THE ROOM Image – License Some rights reserved by Sam Bald The unique facet of a meeting above almost all of the alternatives I’ve…
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You don't need to please everyone
We all have little ‘nightmare scenarios’ that play out in our heads. For the last three or four years, through the process of writing ‘Ninja’, through its’ release and subsequent re-release, one of those nightmares for me has been receiving a 1-star amazon review. Scrutiny and judgement isn’t something anyone likes. You can grow a…
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Productive Team Working: Six ways to encourage your colleagues to be less distracting!
I was running a Stress Less, Achieve More workshop recently in an organisation with a very collaborative and compassionate team-working culture. People genuinely cared about each other, relied on each other to do their work well, and hated saying no or letting others down. It was clearly a great place to work. But it was also…
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Ninja… In the Wild
It’s been a fantastic first month for “How to be a Productivity Ninja” – having been released with Icon earlier this month, it’s been popping up in bookshops all over the UK and I’ve had some great photos tweeted and emailed to me, with people I know spotting the book “in the wild”. It’s also…
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How to be a Productivity Ninja – launch day!
January 2nd. It’s a big day at TPHQ today as “How to be a Productivity Ninja” gets an official (re)release with Icon Books. As many of you know, the book was originally released as a self-published book in July 2012. Before I released it, I had a couple of conversations with big publishers and wasn’t…
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CORD Productivity Model – Do
This is the final post in a series of articles on the CORD Productivity Model. You can read the previous articles here We’ve already explored the C(ollect and Capture), O(rganise) and R(eview) habits, but of course, all of these are of little use or value unless we’re in the habit of Doing things! The Do habit…
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Family Guy: Pockets of Proactive Attention & The Thinking List
One of the hardest things about being a new parent is that regardless of how well you sleep, you’ll be tired and your days more ‘disrupted’. I have found myself ‘pitching in’ with a lot more of the household chores in the last few weeks (!) and in an echo of our ‘Getting Your Inbox…
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Get Shipping
(Image by kamshots via Flickr) In Linchpin, Seth Godin talks about the idea of ‘shipping’ – the idea that there’s no value in what you’re working on unless it’s actually being used. Completing something means ‘shipping it’ to the customer. We all have the power to ship. In recent years, the literal act of shipping has gone from a pretty…
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Quick Task Tip: batching
(image by juhansonin via Flickr) One of the smartest things you can do to avoid wasting a lot of attention and energy on setup time is to batch up similar tasks and tackle them all in one go. Getting ‘in the zone’ with something takes some time, so if you’re already in that zone, it’s a good idea to…
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Family Guy: the midnight feeding club
My December Family Guy experiment was originally supposed to be earlier in the year and was going to involve me ‘shadowing’ the routines of busy parents and try and stay productive. And then we found out Chaz was pregnant, so now I’m doing it for real… I’ve spent the last few weeks…
