Posts in Productivity
Seven habits of highly productive people

Being productive isn’t about creating long to-do lists and then ticking off as many tasks as possible each day. Real productivity is about being ruthless about the right tasks you should be working on and then setting up systems that help you end each day with quality, high-value work having been completed. Here’s seven habits highly productive people use to do that...

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Eliminate Decision Fatigue and Find More Time

Having to make non-stop decisions all day every day, no matter how small or insignificant they seem can really grind us down over time. And eventually what happens is we reach a point of 'decision fatigue', which can be characterised by things like low energy, procrastination and eventually burn out. In this post I share some ideas for how to avoid decision fatigue.

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Email Productivity: 7 steps to Inbox Zero

As someone who is running a business that has thousands of students in it - I get A LOT of emails. I would estimate around 100-200 each day across the 6 inboxes that I manage for my business. Here’s a brain dump of the tips and tricks that I use to manage my email, without letting it sidetrack me from other important work.

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Why your design business isn't growing

In this post I share some ideas on why your design business may not be growing and why you may not be as profitable as you would like. This is a problem that I see time and again with designers. Perhaps you aren't getting enough clients or perhaps you have enough clients and lots of work but you aren’t seeing the financial results that you feel you should (or would like to!) have. Here are four reasons why that might be the case…

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