Using Your Fitbit as a Pomodoro Timer or with a Smartphone Productivity App
Working in intervals of 20 to 40 minutes (so-called timeboxes) interspersed with 5-minute breaks is an excellent way to increase productivity, overcome procrastination, and do something for your health...
View ArticleDon’t Be a Headless Chicken: 8 Tips for More Happiness and Productivity
As soon as the headless chicken wakes up, it starts running in circles. It becomes frantically active, checks its mail, and feels the urge to do something. Anything that can relieve the stress and the...
View ArticleMy Experience with Fasting for Metabolic Health, Mental Performance and...
During the last couple of weeks, my mind wasn’t as fluid as it used to be. Reading, writing, analyzing, whatever I did, I tired much easier. Also, about three hours after each meal, I felt a dip in...
View ArticleUsing a Photo Light Box for Taking Product Photos for My Blog: A Great Time...
This post is for you if you want to take photos of small-to-medium-sized objects with a pure white background for your blog, research paper, shopping site, or book with no fuss. Taking photos against a...
View ArticleMy Fourth Fast: Update on Five-Day Fasting for Health and Mental Performance
It is Saturday, June 30, 9:30 am. I just broke my fast with some cashew nuts and almonds. This was my fourth fast, and it was a bit harder than the previous one. My hunger never completely subsided. I...
View ArticleIt’s a Noisy World Out There: Here is Help to Turn It Off
You might have noticed that over time I have written a lot of posts that somehow relate to noise. For example, I have covered how noise directly affects memory and performance for students and...
View ArticleEnjoy a Good Moment When You See It
Last night I had a marvelous sleep and so I was sitting there this morning, in a comfy arm chair, brimming with happiness and energy. My iPad and my phone were right in front of me, screaming: check me...
View ArticleAtomic Habits by James Clear: Building Good Habits and Breaking Bad Ones
My experience applying Atomic Habits After I wake up, I sit up on the edge of my bed. After sitting up, I drink water from the big bottle right in front of me. After drinking water, I get up and …...
View ArticlePaced Time Boxing (PTB): One of My All-Time Favorite Productivity Hacks
For several years now, I have been an enthusiastic practitioner of time boxing—working in fixed time intervals (time boxes) of 25 to 40 minutes, interspersed with short breaks during which I get up...
View ArticleHow to March Through Your Day Productively and Not Get Lost in Cyberspace
Have you just returned from an extended Facebook or web surfing session, wondering where all your time went? You just followed a status update notification and “boom,” an hour is gone! Perhaps you feel...
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