Chris Bailey: Productivity Isn’t the Same as Busyness

Chris Bailey: Productivity Isn’t the Same as Busyness

What exactly is productivity? What are some things you can do to become more meaningfully productive? According to productivity expert Chris Bailey, productivity isn’t just about trying to do more for the sake of doing more. Rather, productivity is the ability to identify and prioritize what matters most. In this article, we’ll explain Bailey’s definition of productivity and how it challenges a common misunderstanding about what it means to be productive.

How to Overcome Cognitive Biases: The Top 3 Methods

How to Overcome Cognitive Biases: The Top 3 Methods

Do you want to free your mind from psychological biases? Is it possible to be 100% free from bias? While it’s not possible to be totally free from bias, you can actively work to reduce it with study and practice. As a result of overcoming your biases, you will view the world more objectively, make better decisions, and become less prone to anxiety fueled by biased thinking. Keep reading to learn how to overcome cognitive biases.

Managing Distractions: Tips From a Productivity Expert

Do you get distracted a lot? How do distractions hinder your performance? Getting distracted not only wastes your valuable time but also makes it more difficult to resume focus. Attention research has shown that employees focus on a project for 11 minutes before being interrupted, and on average it takes them 25 minutes to refocus. Here are some tips for managing distractions and preventing them from stealing your focus.

Managing Priorities: The Key to Being Productive

Managing Priorities: The Key to Being Productive

Do you struggle to manage your priorities? What are some criteria you can do to identify the most important tasks on your to-do list? Managing priorities is the key to being meaningfully productive. When you’re able to identify and tackle the highest priority tasks first, you’ll progress a lot faster. However, it’s not always easy to identify what is most important from your to-do list. Productivity expert Chris Bailey gives some tips on how to identify the most significant, highest-impact tasks.

Breaking Bad Habits: 2 Strategies for Success

Breaking Bad Habits: 2 Strategies for Success

Why is it so hard to break bad habits? How can you break the tendency to engage in habitual behaviors that sabotage your success? Bad habits tend to be the behaviors that make us feel good in the short term. Because we seek instant gratification over long-term results, bad habits often seem more appealing than many good habits that require us to put in more work. Here are two strategies for breaking bad habits and forming beneficial habits in their stead.

5 Common Self-Sabotaging Behaviors to Avoid

5 Common Self-Sabotaging Behaviors to Avoid

Do you constantly self-sabotage by engaging in behaviors that take you further away from your goals? How can you stop doing what you know is hindering your progress? Self-sabotage is engaging in behaviors that prevent you from achieving your goals. While the way you sabotage is unique to your personality and life circumstances, the patterns of self-sabotaging behaviors are not that different from person to person. Keep reading to learn about some of the most common self-sabotaging behaviors and how to stop doing them.

Where Do Emotions Come From?

Where Do Emotions Come From?

Do you sometimes feel emotions you cannot explain? Where do emotions come from? Emotions sometimes get the better of us, but we can learn to tame them and respond to emotional situations more rationally and effectively. To do that, we have to first understand what gives rise to our emotions. Keep reading to learn where our emotional responses come from and how to deal with unexpected emotions.

John Gottman’s 4 Steps to Escape a “Gridlock” in a Marriage

John Gottman’s 4 Steps to Escape a “Gridlock” in a Marriage

What exactly is “gridlock” in the context of a marriage? What are the signs that your relationship has gotten stuck in a gridlock? According to John Gottman, gridlock is the struggle to resolve an ongoing marital problem. In his book The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work (along with co-author Nan Silver), Gottman explains that you can learn to live with an ongoing problem. But if you don’t, the problem will build up and grow into a gridlock. Here’s how to avoid getting into a gridlock and how to get out of it if you’re stuck.

Taking Responsibility for Your Actions: Stop Being a Victim of Chance

Taking Responsibility for Your Actions: Stop Being a Victim of Chance

Do you feel out of control of your life? How do you stop feeling like a victim of circumstance and start taking an active role in directing the course of your life? Many people live in constant fear and anxiety because they don’t feel in control of their lives. However, what they don’t realize is that the reason they don’t feel in control is that they aren’t willing to take control, which requires taking responsibility for their actions. Here’s how taking responsibility for your actions can help you let go of victimhood and seize control of your life.