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Productivity · 2 min read

Pablo Picasso on Inspiration

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” — Pablo Picasso Hope inspiration, or at least some ice cream, finds you working today!

October 11, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Time · 2 min read

One Done at a Time

Check out the beautiful infographic below on our how brains adapt to multi-tasking. New reports find that high-multi-taskers are “lousy at everything required for multi-tasking.”

January 31, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Time · 3 min read

Painless Timekeeping for Lawyers

For lawyers who shudder at the very mention of the word “billable”, time keeping ranges the negative spectrum from the worst chore to the bane of lawyerly existence. The best way to keep track of your time is contemporaneous entries for accuracy’s sake, but that’s just not how a lot…

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Time · 2 min read

Ray Bradbury says Action is Hope

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end [...]

October 3, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Time · 2 min read

Schedules of Seriously Productive People

The schedules of some pretty productive people. Lesson: amidst your hard work, don’t forget to eat well, exercise/take walks, and spend time with your peeps. Also, I like Monsieur Flaubert’s idea of breakfast. (via idlethink)

September 27, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Productivity · 2 min read

Perspectives on Procrastination

We are constantly trading off what we are doing now against what we might do in the future. As long as we are doing that in a reasonable way, it doesn’t matter that we are putting some things off. Frank Partnoy reports on how experts in different fields view procrastination in Procrastination Rules. He describes how [.

July 31, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Productivity · 2 min read

Productivity Tips from Hank Green

To send you into the weekend, here’s Hank of the Vlogbrothers sharing some tongue-in-cheek productivity tips. I dunno – do you think that chair is ergonomic enough? (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

June 29, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Productivity · 2 min read

Productivity Tips from the Best

Get some productivity ideas from some famous artists, writers, and musicians. Our particular funny favorite, Henrik Ibsen. Nothing like those mortal enemies to get the motors running! Source: Lapham’s Quarterly via TNW

June 22, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Time · 2 min read

Productivity Issues

“Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Cham, www.phdcomics.com We spend an enormous amount of time trying to get the world to align with the vision we have for what will make us happy or successful. Whatever “it” is, figuring out how to deal with the noise in your head is probably faster and cheaper than changing [...]

June 21, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Productivity · 2 min read

Productivity for a Good Day’s Work

37signals’s DHH writes in A good day’s work about the frustration from endless work. His solution to anxiety and worry is to reflect on the day.

June 19, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Productivity · 2 min read

Scott Belsky on Creative Productivity

Productivity is not about how efficient you are at work. Instead, your productivity is really about how well you are able to make an impact in what matters most to you. Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality, talking about creative productivity.

May 15, 2012 · I Done This Support Read article →

Motivation · 4 min read

Personal Accountability, Collective Inspiration

This guest blog post comes from Bassam Tarazi, founder of Colipera. Colipera uses both individual goal setting and the social pressure that comes from being a part of a group endeavor to help you stay committed to your goals. We find plenty of reasons to not start; plenty of made up, self-sympathizing reasons to never

September 20, 2011 · Walter Chen Read article →

Productivity · 2 min read

Pro Life Tips from Reddit

If you wouldn’t wake up early to do it, you probably shouldn’t stay up late to do it. — Advice from a Redditor that doesn’t necessarily apply in all situations but poses a useful question about our priorities to those of us who like to stay up late at night. (Image source: sarahayasaka)

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Productivity · 2 min read

Ray Bradbury: We Are Cups

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. Ray Bradbury

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Time · 2 min read

Report Your Dones

Wanting to report what you’ve gotten done is a perfectly natural inclination. Before today, we had a rudimentary CSV export file and the option to copy and paste, but no doubt, iDoneThis users deserve better. Click and drag on the calendar to highlight multiple days’ worth of accomplishments. Where the…

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Remote work · 6 min read

So You’re New to Remote Work

COVID-19 quarantines and self-isolation have put millions of workers at home for the first time, trying to get remote work done while managing home life. It’s easy to struggle with communication and productivity when you’re trying to work from home. If you don’t have a dedicated office space in your home, you’re either

March 24, 2020 · I Done This Support Read article →