Ray Sidney-Smith

ProdPod: Episode 118: Pondering Minimalism vis-à-vis Personal Productivity

Minimalism gets a great deal of media coverage today. Marie Kondo has taken the home organizing industry by storm with

In the last episode, I defined resilience, or emotional elasticity, as I like to call it. Here, I’d like to

A few episodes ago I covered several challenges that people face in their productive lives, including overcoming overwhelm, distractions, indecision,

In the last episode we learned that the scientific research that told everyone to think outside the box to overcome

So often I hear the cliché that you need to be an “out of the box” thinker. Creativity and problem-solving

Intuitively, we know that focus is a fundamental of greater productivity. Broadly and less instinctively, focus manifests heightened productivity by

Burnout is a systemic problem not a situational/circumstantial challenge. And, so overcoming burnout is more about how to build systematic

In Episode 22, I defined procrastination and even gave a few pointers about Procrasti-Doing in Episode 82. In this episode,

Do you have a good idea of how well you manage uncertainty and make decisions? For most people, there is

Without focus, almost nothing can get done. Yet distractions abound in our everyday work and personal lives. If everything and