While productivity strategies come and go, two stand out as both prominent yet often misunderstood: time blocking and task batching. On the surface, they seem similar. Both methods involve planning ...

While most productivity methods focus on chunks of time throughout a single day, there are few that address what you can get done in a string of many days. So much planning can be daunting, but ...

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I don’t necessarily consider myself a great multitasker. In fact, I find it pretty difficult to do more than one thing at one time. Let’s just say that patting my head and rubbing my stomach is not my ...

When it comes to managing our homes and personal lives, most of us aren’t using an Eisenhower Matrix to organize our to-do lists or performing a SWOT analysis to make our mornings run smoothly. But ...

We live in an age where busyness is worn like a badge of honour. Calendars are packed from dawn to dusk, emails flow in like an unstoppable tide, and even personal goals often get pushed to “someday.” ...

Picture your calendar as a game of Tetris where every block represents a specific task or commitment. Time blocking can significantly increase productivity through structured breaks, and the science ...