A comprehensive selection of self improvement articles, focusing on Productivity from writers around the world

How To Bring The Joy Back To Your Productivity

When you try to be extremely productive on tasks you should be enjoying, you are killing the joy of doing those nice things.

This in turn causes you anxiety and stress, because you treat the joyful events and situations as items on the task list that has to be crossed out – as soon as possible. Continue reading

6 Simple Tactics to Regain Clarity and Achieve Your Goals

No matter what you wish to achieve in life, the richest, most complete life experience requires that you have an enhanced clarity about life and your goals for life. When you have this clarity, goal achievement comes as a natural result.

Of course, clarity isn’t something most of us naturally walk around with on a minute by minute basis. Sometimes it becomes quite difficult to remember why you’re making decisions and thus how to make decisions. Continue reading

11 Sure-Fire Steps to Turn Your Dreams to Reality Starting Today

You hanging in there wasting away, hoping secretly that that somebody somewhere comes to our rescue and changes things for you

But what if they never come?

Maybe your game plan is to win the lottery or find gold but let’s face it; we all know that the chances of any these happening are extremely slim. Continue reading

The First PickTheBrain Book is Finally Here! (And I couldn’t be more thrilled!)

I am so happy to be able to finally announce that months of hard work with HyperInk have finally come to a close and that I can officially announce the release of our first book ever: “PickTheBrain’s Rock Star Productivity: Time Management Tips, Leadership Skills and Other Keys to Self Improvement!” Continue reading

7 Habits Highly Effective People DON’T Have

You make lists, program your phone’s calendar, stick post-it notes around the house but still – what needs doing isn’t getting done.

You and your friends sigh that it’s just the way life is now. When did we get so busy? you wonder. You resign yourselves to feeling anxious and dissatisfied. Continue reading

How Get Everything Done Without Sacrificing Your Beauty Sleep or Your Social Life

Not to mention all the everyday things you need to do to keep your Internet bill paid and your friends and family happy. You’ve got a lot on your plate, and trying to balance it all with your big goals and dreams can be overwhelming.

I’ve been where you are, and I’ve found a few techniques to help me manage everything I want out of life, without losing a drop of beauty sleep over it. Continue reading