Now that we’ve wound down the previous year and are getting back up to full speed, this presents the perfect opportunity to hit the reset button on your systems and processes, helping you to increase your productivity. It’s affecting your productivity. Take a few minutes to set up your home screen with your most used apps, organize your other apps into folders, delete unused apps, kill annoying notifications and tweak any other settings that will help you to be more productive. What are YOUR tips for using the new year to increase your productivity? MORE >>

Manage your goals and keep close track of them, the smarter way to a ‘Wonderful Day’  Inspired by Jerry Seinfeld’s  Productivity Secret , Wonderful Day, our iOS app visualizes your goals in a way that screams out “Don’t break the chain!” All you got to do is tell us “The best productivity tip you’ve got” To participate, follow and tweet to @wonderfuldayapp and/or write on their  Facebook wall  . Please do not forget to add #productivity #wonderfuldayapp in your tweet. The Productivity contest iPhone app Wonderful Day MORE >>

want to break down the 5 pillars of productivity in preparation for a seminar I’m given on this on Sunday at The River Church. Before we begin: productivity vs creativity and the creative’s problem. Yesterday Esko Kilpi challenged me that we should not use the word productivity for humans, but rather the word creativity. Both of them would say that productivity – trying to squeeze more and more out of your day – is a foolish and inhuman pursuit and we should rather seek to have creative whitespace in our days. We need to get things done. MORE >>

PRODUCTIVITY. Enter your email address: May 23rd, 2008 in Productivity. Are You a Productive Reader? But are you productively literate? But too often we read important stuff — how-to manuals, business and personal development guides, science and current affairs treatises, and yes, even personal productivity blogs with the same mindset. Godin — the author of quite a few business books — offers these three tips for reading productively: Commit to making at least three changes in your life as a result of your reading. Productivity. MORE >>

Here are 5 sure-fire ways you can be productive with email. You can thank Tama Leaver on Flickr for it. -- Thanks for reading 5 Tips to Boost Email Productivity by Ari Herzog. Productivity emailEmail can sink your time so it is crucial you are in control. Create folders and filters. Every email program since the dawn of computers has allowed for folders and filters. The purpose of a folder is to store messages. The purpose of a filter is to automatically move incoming messages to a folder. How many of each do you employ today? Reduce your inbox to zero messages every night. MORE >>