I have a long checklist of things to do immediately when I wake up in the morning during my Morning Preview, but when you break it down to its most basic elements, the purpose is waking myself up with a reminder of my priorities. I start the day in prayer and try to make sure…
Productivity
The Celebrity Method: How to Add Credibility to Your Content
I’ve written about time batching and time blocking (time boxing) in multiple places recently: Batch Your Weekly Work Ahead of Time Time Batching vs. Time Blocking While both pieces are practical, neither one is as convincing as Thomas Frank‘s video above. Why? Because he used credibility to convince people to try this strategy. If it…
Prioritizing Projects with Index Cards
I organize all of the projects and tasks I have to do in Trello, which stacks “cards” vertically in lists. Within each card I can add checklists, notes, documents, links, deadlines, and almost anything else I would need for a project. It is an amazing tool that I have relied on constantly every day for…
Batching Your Work
I suffer from a problem that a lot of other artists and entrepreneurs deal with on a day to day basis. We have so many ideas and projects that we want to work on that we end up starting but not finishing many different projects at the same time. As a results, we tend to…
How to Remember What You Read
I set a goal this year to read fifty books. I’m up to twenty-eight books and seven ahead of schedule. That is a lot of books and most of them are nonfiction. Here is the challenge: reading more books means there is more to remember. Since I have increased the number of books I read,…
