Why Ready, FIRE, Aim Works

On My Turning 75

On Hurrying

A Perfect Garden: A fictional short-short story

Bored? 13 Productive activities

9 Things I Know How to Do and You Should Too

Excerpts from my book, Baby Steps: Doable ways to improve your life

Einstein for Chief of Staff

Don't Empty Your Mind. Fill It.

Speed

A Word With Marty: "DRIVE"

A Word With Marty: "EFFICIENCY"

A Word With Marty: "BUSY"

How to Become More Productive

I was interviewed last week and, off the air, the host asked, "How the hell are you so productive?" My Psychology Today article today paraphrases my answer.

The Asymptote Effect: Key to improving productivity and reducing anxiety

The asymptote is the point of diminishing returns. It can be applied to how we work, and to great advantage. I explain in my Psychology Today article today.

Getting Stuff Done

A client three days ago lamented not getting enough done. This article distills how I tried to help. She wrote me today to say that our session helped a lot. This article provides the essence of that session. Perhaps it contains something that will help you get more done.

Getting More Done: Ideas for efficiency and avoiding procrastination

Getting things done feels good. That's not just because you’re more effectively negotiating life and doing your share — It feels good to cross something off your to-do list, far better than feeling guilty about all that you should have done. Yet another plus: Staying busy distracts you from malaise that you can’t fix, at least for now.

If you’d like to get more done, perhaps one or more of the ideas in my Psychology Today article today will help.

Becoming Much More Efficient...In three minutes. Efficiency: a vilified virtue

Efficiency has moved from lauded trait to something negative, vaguely corporatist even militaristic. Yet that vilified virtue is crucial to productivity. And from where I sit, productivity is core to the life well-lived.

I feel on safest ground if I tell you the things I do to be efficient. I know they work, at least for me, and no one can accuse me of not walking my talk. At minimum, my PsychologyToday.com article today should only take you three minutes to read—an efficient use of your time.

Becoming More Productive

The older I get, the more I believe that the current meme, "We're not human doings; we're human beings" is wrong. I believe the productivity is all. I make the case and describe how I try to live that in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

The Joy of Cranking: The case for staying busy, not slowing down

Today, we’re often urged to slow down, to breathe, to honor the "life" part of work-life balance.

Yet I’ve found that many of my most fulfilled, contented clients and friends tend to crank.—They fill nearly every moment with productivity. 

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I make the case that this is an approach to life that's more worthy than work-life-balance activists would have us believe.