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Day Crafting: The Productivity Workbook

Bruce Stanley
Sep 10, 2022
3 min read

Updated: Jul 28

Cover of "Day Crafting: The Productivity Workbook" by Bruce Stanley. Yellow illustration of person writing. Text highlights productivity tips.

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 methods to craft the style in lifestyle.

How is your day different from how it could have been? Bridging that gap is the practical skill of Day Crafting. It is the good life in two steps: balance and flourish today, then repeat tomorrow.

Enhancing Productivity and Fulfilment Through Craftsmanship

This workbook is designed to help you understand your productivity better and find ways to improve your work and craft. It covers a variety of outcomes, from enhancing processes to creating better products, with personal fulfilment being the most meaningful goal. You'll find a friendly blend of easy-to-understand theory and practical exercises that you can do both in the workbook and in your daily life.

Think of your actions as a craft. At its core, a craftsperson’s day revolves around creating, transforming raw materials into beautiful or useful products. However, remember that the final product isn't the only measure of your efforts. What's truly fulfilling is the sense of flow, mastery, growth, and connection you feel along the way, especially when you make something that brightens someone else’s day or eases their life. Deep down, we’re naturally wired to stay busy, be fruitful, feel energised, and find purpose in what we do, making each day meaningful and on purpose.

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Download Free Sample of the Productivity Workbook

This book will help you improve your productivity, but that statement needs a bit of unpacking. This is not a tips and hacks book. Maybe you have identified a problem, or a symptom, that relates to work and productivity: you’re too busy and approaching burnout. Or you can’t get enough done because of interruptions and distractions. Maybe there are too many meetings or too much email or poor management or a toxic work culture, and you may feel stuck or cynical about the possibility of improvement. Or you’re languishing; you’ve arrived where you always wanted to be, but now that you’re here, you’re not experiencing any fulfilment.

Enhancing Long-Term Performance Through Systematic Solutions

If you're able to find a quick fix for the problem you’ve identified, that’s great! However, this workbook goes further by exploring the root causes of issues, not just their symptoms. Its main goal is to support you in enhancing your overall performance.

So, what does it really mean to improve your usual performance? Sometimes, we might focus on wins, results, or outcomes to gauge our success, but remember, they are just the natural rewards of putting in steady effort every day within a supportive system.

This well-designed system is crafted to gently improve your usual performance step by step. Remember, all the skills in the world won’t be enough at the workbench if you don’t fine-tune the environment around you. Good results really come from well-structured systems.

Expanding Your Skills: The Next Step in the Day Crafting Apprentice Series

This specialist workbook, the next in the Day Crafting Apprentice Series, thoughtfully expands on the foundational concepts introduced in the Introductory workbook. We recommend that apprentices complete the Introductory Workbook first, before exploring any of the four engaging specialist workbooks: Body-clock, Productivity, Self-care, and Change. This way, you'll have a solid understanding to get the most out of each module.