Francesco D'Alessio
July 31, 2017
4 min read
One of my favourite quote is by Abraham Lincoln
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Although I don’t recommend you spend all your time inside of productivity blog, as that would be counter productive, checking in every 2 weeks or month is a great way to refresh your insights.
Podcasts, blogs, articles, videos are fantastic media formats to learn from.
Absorbing all of the content and applying it to all of the aspects in your life can really refuel your efforts, habits and routines to supercharge your productivity. As someone who covers productivity apps on YouTube, I try my hardest to share these resources out into the wild to help nurture your existing productivity and work/life balance.
So, without further ado, let’s dive into some fantastic productivity blogs!
1. Productivityist by Mike Vardy
With a supporting podcast, Productivityist is a great way to go deeper with your productivity and habits. Mike, each week, published an in-depth blog and podcast, combined with the host of resources and downloads on the Productivityist site, you’ll love learning from Mike and his efforts.
Article Recommendation:
43 Bullet Points of Personal Productivity
2. Michael Hyatt’s Personal Blog
Who is ever playing Mike bingo at home. Two in a row here.
Michael Hyatt is a New York Times bestselling author who speaks all about productivity as a big picture. His blog focuses on team and personal productivity. Michael recommends resources and tools too, allowing you to go deeper with your Evernote and task management tools
Article Recommendation:
Using Keyboard Shortcuts to Boost Your Productivity
3. Zen Habits
Relax. And learn.
Zen Habits tries to cover personal productivity and meditation at the same time. With 100s of articles to check out, Leo Babuta goes deeper with all his learnings and teachings from his year’s at work. Helping you to find great work/life balance and improved daily productivity. Even the design of the site reflects what you need to do, zen out!
Article Recommendation:
4. 99U | Productivity Advice
This blog gives a nice blend between personal productivity articles and leadership/organisational advice. 99U is designed for creatives but has a comprehensive productivity section that applies to everyone, which is great!
Well-worth exploring for combatting all those email, meeting, and personal productivity issues you’d like to overcome with you and your team.
Article Recommendation:
A Scientifically Backed Guide to Taking Truly Restful Break
5. Unclutterer | Keeping things in order
This is one of my personal favourites. Unclutterer delivers regylar pieces about how you can take control of certain elements of your life.
I enjoy their articles on time. Time is naturally one of the assets we are all gifted with, and the likes of Jacki and the editorial team go deep with their insights into how to maximise your time and get things done across the day!
Article Recommendation:
Managing Time To Learn New Skills
6. The Four Hour Work Week | Skill focused
Tim Ferriss brings together one of the best guides out there to mastering any skill and perfecting your craft. The Four Hour Work Week blog is known in most parts of the world as a leading resource when it comes to saving time, improving your productivity and also channeling what you are truly here for.
His supporting podcast is the best on the iTunes Store. Regarded as the greatest self-development and business podcasts, his two-hour interviews go very deep with the world’s top performing, extracting all of the golden productivity tips.
Article Recommendation:
The Not To-Do List: 9 Habits to Break
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TIP: One of the biggest tips I’d give with reading these types of pieces is to have a focus when reading these. If you say “spending your commute time wisely” is a topic you’d like to work on, then all of the blogs you find will help you solve that issue. Focusing on a solution approach will help to define your learnings.
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