Why trying to get everything done will ruin your productivity
With the launch of How to be Really Productive, I’ve been doing a few interviews lately, talking about what productivity is really about. One thing that keeps coming up for me is what I call The Everything Myth. Productivity is not about getting everything done. In...
Basic Human Needs
Remember Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? When it comes to productivity and performance, we so often focus on the higher levels – fulfilment, achievement, purpose – but what happened to our basic human needs? Why is it that we think we can sacrifice sleep as...
Making space
This has come up in almost every conversation I’ve had with clients, colleagues and friends so far this year. Making space seems to be a big theme. In a world where the trend has been for faster, further, sooner and more, what we crave more than anything is space....