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Productivity

5 Ways to Create a Kick-Ass Workflow

By Mars Dorian on July 15th 2010 in Productivity 17 comments

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There you are. An (aspiring) Untemplater, ready to take on the world. What do you have ? Enough passion to melt the moon ? Check. A desire to design your own lifestyle ? Check. The will to inspire thousands along the ride ? Check. What’s missing ? The magic to make it all happen. Or [...]

The Secrets of Someone Else’s Success

By Norcross on June 28th 2010 in Productivity 29 comments

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Brogan. Godin. Gary Vee. Babauta. Fried. You’ve heard the names. But what do they have to do with you? At the end of the day, not much. Because you aren’t them.

The NOT-to-do List

By Josh Crocker on June 24th 2010 in Productivity 5 comments

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Sometimes what you DON’T do is more important than what you do. You not-to do list guides you and gives you boundaries that lead you to your goal.

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Unproductivity – The Animation

By John Bardos on June 17th 2010 in Productivity 2 comments

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This animation is a sarcastic look at our excessive pre-occupation with productivity. We sometimes focus on efficiency to the detriment of our own health and humanity. What about spending time with and caring about real people? Creativity is not a scarce input to be maximized. Humans need slack time to think and create.

Protect Your Creative Time

By Carl on June 8th 2010 in Productivity 4 comments

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We all work in cycles of high and low creativity and productivity, finding your rhythm takes time, patience and awareness. For some it comes without warning, for others it falls at the same time every day. Whatever the case, whenever it is your creative time, embrace it and don’t let things get in the way.

Untemplate Your College Experience

By Rob Stretch on April 12th 2010 in Productivity 34 comments

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If any of you are college students like me, you find a paradox with the Untemplater lifestyle. You’ve read Tim Ferris, you’ve downloaded the Manifesto on this site, but this kind of lifestyle still seems utterly impossible.

This is because the typical university experience might be the clearest example of the template lifestyle. Think about it. A typical college student has class Monday through Friday, sometimes works a side job, often does homework late into the night, and usually doesn’t find time to travel for semesters at a time if ever.

Become a Better Executor

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I’m excellent at planning, horrible at executing. I’m a classic over-researcher; I am great at coming up with ideas, figuring out what I need to do, drawing up action lists, then searching for more resources, and trying to find the best prices, etc. Unfortunately, I have a hard time moving past that stage.

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How To Get Lucky… Creatively

By Carl on March 3rd 2010 in Productivity 14 comments

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Creativity is not something you are born with or not, rather, creativity is a factor of skill, knowledge, ethic and preparation.

Creativity and luck are found when you set yourself up to be in the right place, at the right time, in the right mindset as much as possible.

How To Be Extremely Productive: Total Immersion

By Arsene Hodali on February 3rd 2010 in Productivity 25 comments

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How do you unlock that secret door to becoming extremely productive? Easy, through total immersion. This year I made it so that my one goal in everything that I do is going to be total immersion. It’s the obvious-yet-overlooked key to success and extreme productivity in life. See, I got the idea from language learning [...]