Productivity Archives - Morgan Giddings

January 3, 20250Comments

Ever Feel Like You’re Lazy? It’s the Quantitative Trap.

For much of my life, I thought I was lazy, and berated myself for not being less lazy than I seem to be. (I also sometimes berate myself for using

by Morgan Giddings

Beliefs

Creativity

Life

Productivity

August 13, 20182Comments

Life As a Mirror

https://player.vimeo.com/video/288203022 Do you feel like your experiences keep repeating themselves? The same problems ... over and over ... cycling back around to the same stuff?! A tourist attraction shows us how life

May 15, 20181Comments

Embracing the “Inner Asshole”

Administrative roadblocks, aggressive colleagues, and depressing news: things like these are rampant. The question is, how should we deal with them? Many of us often choose to take the "safe"

by Morgan Giddings

Creativity

Productivity

August 11, 20160Comments

How to Hack Your Creative Workspace

This is a guest post by Allie Smith-Hobbs. It’s the middle of summer. How's your productivity? There are nights where I've been up in the wee hours ruminating about projects. And although our work

by Morgan Giddings

Life

Productivity

December 3, 20150Comments

How to Have the best Holidays ever…

The Holidays are supposed to be a time of giving thanks and enjoying family - but for many of us they turn into a nightmare. In this article, I discuss what

Productivity

June 24, 20151Comments

My other favorite F-word

This is a guest post by Allie Smith-Hobbs. Fun is a four letter word around the American workplace. When I worked in Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom of endless foozball

Productivity

March 19, 20151Comments

Fun Killers are Productivity Killers, Part I

Why do you want to be more “productive?” Why are there so many productivity books, products, courses, and gurus? If you examine this question, productivity isn’t quite what it seems. Lots

Productivity

March 5, 20150Comments

Your Problem Is Not What You Think It Is

Let’s say that by some weird coincidence in life, you have a problem that you have to actually deal with and can't just sweep under the rug. (Hey, most of us

Productivity

May 22, 20140Comments

Eliminating Overwhelm From Your Life

This isn't going to be another one of those "six steps and you're cured" kind of posts about the problem of overwhelm. That's because if you don't solve the fundamental mindset

Productivity

Science

March 19, 20140Comments

The "I hate money… (give me more of it)" syndrome

One of the chronic, often devastating conditions I run into nearly everyday is this: “There’s not enough money out there, it is scarce and hard to come by, and it requires

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