How Tomorrow Moves| More...
 

Productivity

Slow Living: How To Gear Up

divinecaroline.com | Green Sherpa | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: In Praise of Slowness, Stress, Living, Unplug and Recharge, Multitasking, Unitasking, Anxiety, Slowing Down, Productivity, Living News

When you're busy fulfilling the urge to be everyone's everything all the time, there something incredibly restoring to closing the door, waving the wh...

Read Whole Story

Jobs Report: Unemployment Breaks 10%

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Job Market, Jobs, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Productivity, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

For the first time since 1983, over 1 out of every 10 American is out of work. How's that for starting your Friday with some sobering news?

Read Post

5 Ways to Break Up a Bad Work Day

Tim Berry | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business

Read More: John Jantsch, Small Business, Work Productivity, Twitter, Productivity, 5 Ways to Break Up a Bad Work Day, How to Write a Business Letter, Business News
Tim Berry

It's one of those days. Maybe you have technical problems, or a project that isn't going well, or you couldn't sleep last night. These are things that help break up a bad day.

Read Post

Productivity: Is Multitasking Something To Move Toward Or Away From?

wowOwow | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Worklife, Concentration, Multitasking, Unitasking, The Balanced Life, Unitask, Multitask, Time Management, Focus, Productivity, Organization, Living News

Multitasking seems to have wormed its way into our brain matter and I'm not sure that's a good thing, but it's tough to turn back now....

Read Whole Story

13 Tips To Help You Become More By Doing Less

beliefnet.com | Terry Hershey | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Efficiency, Multitasking, Unitasking, The Balanced Life, Work, Health, Work-Life Balance, The Power of Pause, Anxiety, Terry Hershey, Wellness, Productivity, Organization, Living News

We live in a world that urges us to admire and pursue everything that's faster, newer, bigger. But here's the disquieting truth: a life based on urgen...

Read Whole Story

Unitasking Trumps Multitasking

Dumb Little Man | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Multitasking, Unitasking, The Balanced Life, Unitask, Multitask, Work, Productivity, Living News

It has been shown in numerous studies that people who try and multitask actually lose efficiency and productivity levels drop....

Read Whole Story

Multitasking: 6 Ways Slacking Can Benefit You At Work

cnn.com | Anthony Balderrama | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Efficiency, Unitasking, How to Relax, The Balanced Life, Unitask, Multitask, Relax, Wellness, Slacking, Stress, Multitasking, Career, Workplace, Work, Health, Lazy, Job, Stress Relief, Laziness, Slacker, Slackers, Productivity, Relaxation, Living News

In a culture where we're constantly being told to be better than everyone at everything, slacking off can be the right way to go for your health and y...

Read Whole Story

Wellness is the Responsibility of Business as Well as Worker

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Employer Provided Health Plans, Employees, Health Care, Health, Wellness, Productivity, Living News
Ellen Galinsky

Both employers and employees need to take responsibility for improving the health of the American workforce. Health care reform won't work without it.

Read Post

Mental Masturbation

Sandy Grason | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Women Entrepreneurs, Success, Passion, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Business, Mindfulness, Productivity, Living News
Sandy Grason

I spent countless hours having these amazing, intellectually stimulating conversations but I wasn't taking any action. Mental masturbation.

Read Post

Balanced Life -- Put on Your Shoes

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Creativity, Efficiency, Daily Life, Clutter, Productivity, Happiness, Gretchen Rubin, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

I know for myself, and judging by my unscientific poll of a lot of people I know, putting on shoes makes you feel ready for action. If you're a shoes-optional freelancer, telecommuter, homemaker, or part-timer, consider wearing your shoes when you're trying to be productive.

Read Post

Labor Day Employment Report: If It's So Good, Why Do I Feel Bad?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs, Jobless Rate, Labor Day, Unemployment Rate, Productivity, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

The results are in -- the Labor Department said that 216,000 were laid off in August, bringing the total number of Americans out of work since the beginning of the recession to 6.9 million.

Read Post

The Recession Is Over -- and It Isn't

Zachary Karabell | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Reserve, U.S. Economy, Gdp, Retail Sales, Recession, Productivity, Business News
Zachary Karabell

With Wall Street -- and the Federal Reserve -- in a rush to declare the recession over, economic data indicates that the simple binary recession/no recession framework obscures more than it reveals.

Read Post

Doing More For Less

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Double-Dip-Recession, Financial Crisis, Unit Labor Costs, Exploitation, Housing Crisis, Wages, Middle Class, Productivity, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

If we are working fewer hours, getting lower wages and unable to borrow more, what comes next? New BLS data seriously questions the strength and endurance of the present economic rally.

Read Post

10 Signs You Have Gone Overboard Organizing

Karen Leland | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Cleaning, Featured Contributor, Productivity, Organization, Friendship, Family Time, Organizing, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Simplifying-Life, Cleaning Clutter, Housecleaning, Closets, Living News
Karen Leland

My declaration for what little time is left of summer is to spend less time sorting and more time being with family and friends, reading and lying out in sun.

Read Post

Zen Habits and Simple Productivity

Karen Leland | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Simplicity, Zen Habits, Productivity, Zen, Work, Productive, Buddhism, Living News
Karen Leland

Every night before I go to bed, I read a book. Depending on my mood, I may paw my way through a foodie memoir, a prize-winning novel, or a popular pi...

Read Post

Balanced Life: Fourteen Tips for Running a Good Meeting

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Efficiency, Happiness Tips, Meetings, Work, Productivity, Happiness, Living News
Gretchen Rubin

Nothing can drain the happiness from you faster than a long, unproductive meeting. You're bored; you're not getting anything done; emails are piling up while you sit, trapped.

Read Post

What Pez Candy And Time Management Have In Common

Karen Leland | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Forest Gump, Chocolate, Concentration, Focus, Time Management, PEZ Candy, Productivity, Living News
Karen Leland

When I was a kid, one of my favorite candies was Pez. The bottom half of the dispenser was designed in the shape of a cigarette lighter, and the top w...

Read Post

S&P Misses the Boat: UK and US Need More Stimulus, Not Deficit Reduction

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Debt, Economic Stimulus Package, UK Stimulus, Economy, Economic Crisis, Fiscal Stimulus, UK Credit Rating, Budget Deficit, Productivity, Financial Crisis, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

Taxpayers in both countries have been ripped off and should demand that some of this money be clawed back, the debt in both countries is still manageable.

Read Post

Keeping Plants Indoors May Improve Your Productivity (VIDEO)

planetgreen.discovery.com, TED | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Plants, Plants for Air Quality, Giy, Air Quality, Green Living, Gardening, Indoor Gardening, Productivity, Green News

Brian Merchant over at Planet Green writes that keeping plants indoors not only cleans the air, but may have an added benefit: But there's more--ac...

Read Whole Story

Moms, Mother's Day, and the Myth of Multi-Tasking

Noah St. John | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Julie Morgenstern, Juggle-Tasking, Multi-Tasking, Moms, Mother's Day, Productivity, Living News
Noah St. John

I believe that most moms are actually not multi-tasking, but juggle-tasking. This term describes when someone is juggling multiple tasks, projects, and even jobs.

Read Post

Ask Maddisen: How to Forgive Yourself for Judging Yourself

Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Self-Criticism, Rejection, Judgement, Healing, Self-Judgement, Forgiveness, Criticism, Happiness, Goal-Reaching, Allies, Inner Beauty, Balance, Supporters, Goals, Productivity, Living News
Maddisen K. Krown

Dear Maddisen, I am highly self critical, self judgmental, and even cruel to myself with my thoughts and my mental talk.

Read Post

Where Did All That Stress Come From?

Russell Bishop | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Russell Bishop, The Balanced Life, Half-Tasking, Stress Reduction, Productivity, Stress, Wellness, Living News
Russell Bishop

Have you noticed an increasing amount of stress in your life? Sure, there are plenty of things to be concerned about, not the least of which is the e...

Read Post

Fix the Airlines Instead of Bailing Out Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Indianapolis, Wall Street Bailout, Small Business, Sales, Ronald Reagan, Img, Faa, Business Travelers, Bailouts, Cincinnati, Travel, Airport Security, Business, Southwest Airlines, Air-Traffic-Control, Airport Delays, Memphis, Dayton, Louisville, Marketing, Kentucky, Lexington KY, Delta Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Bill Clinton, Air Traffic Control, Mark McCormick, United Airlines, Washington DC, Airports, Don McNay, Harvard Business School, American Airlines, Air Travel, Airline Industry, Los Angeles, Knoxville, Bermuda, Business Travel, Deregulation, Jimmy Carter, Entrepreneurship, Airlines, Productivity, Chris Rock, Business News
Don McNay

I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.

Read Post

How Multi-Goaling Beats Multi-Tasking Every Time

Russell Bishop | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Russell Bishop, The Balanced Life, Half-Tasking, Multi-Tasking, Productivity, Advice, Self-Help, Living News
Russell Bishop

Of course you have multiple things to do. That's a good thing. In fact, if you didn't have multiple things to do you might be coming near the end of...

Read Post

3 Ways To Get Through A Terrible Task

Dumb Little Man | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Getting Things Done, Efficiency, Productivity, Wellness, Living News

However motivated, fired-up and enthusiastic you are about your life and work, there are going to be times when you have to force yourself to do somet...

Read Whole Story