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Productivity Without Burnout
Gentle, thoughtful ways to get things done without losing yourself. These posts challenge hustle culture and offer grounded approaches to deep work, focus, attention, and creative momentum.
Six Types of Busy And How To Escape Them
Why busyness isn’t the same as a good life and the hidden costs of busy. Have you noticed, of the ways people answer the question, 'how...
Sep 255 min read
Day Crafting: Design Notes
A notebook to capture your Day Crafting practice, design thinking, intentions and journaling. The essential companion notebook for...
Mar 122 min read
System Debt: One Hidden Cause of Stressful Workdays You Can Pay Off
When the systems you set up in a hurry start making your days harder, it might be time to pause, pay off some system debt, and craft a...
May 26, 20243 min read
10 Proactive Diary Tools to Escape Reactive Workdays
The Secret to Better Workdays? Get to your Diary First First Does your work system feel more like A or B? A B Pressing problems....
Mar 23, 20243 min read
A to-do list of to-do lists
Lists are not the best solution at the productivity and information management system level. For that, I use a Kanban system like Trello....
Jan 22, 20242 min read
Time, Energy or Money: Choosing the Right Currency to Make Today Better
It might feel like you're making it up as you go along, but that's not really true. Beneath our actions and choices are rules we follow...
Aug 17, 20232 min read
Day Crafting: The Productivity Workbook
Day Crafting is about developing the skills to use time meaningfully. It is the everyday art of making a good life. It is a set of...
Sep 9, 20223 min read
Day Crafting: The Body-clock Workbook
Day Crafting is about developing the skills to use time meaningfully. It is the everyday art of making a good life. It is a set of...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
Reset your days to your internal clock
Imagine a clock that told you personally when it was your best time during the day to do certain tasks, such as the optimum time to do...
Apr 21, 20215 min read
How To Think Like A Day Crafter
I'm fortunate enough to control my schedule, so why does the 9 to 5 work ethic, among other influences, still loom and cast a shadow over...
Mar 19, 20212 min read
Replacing Big Goals with a Mission Driven Practice
Why is Day Crafting primarily concerned with shaping today, this day, as the way to a good life? I began coaching leaders over 20 years...
Mar 5, 20213 min read
Crafting freedom from the hidden rules we allow to govern us
Last Wednesday, the power went off. It was planned. Someone from the power company told us this was going to happen from 9am, with power back estimated at 4.30pm. So, as a family all at home in lockdown, we scheduled a special day of doing a lot of unplugged things. Including going for a walk after lunch. When we got back at 2.30, the power was back on early ... so what did we do?
Feb 1, 20212 min read
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