Stress-free productivity does exist

As Steve Jobs says in the brief interview in the video linked below, we all have the ability to influence our world, to make things happen, or to make them happen better, or maybe faster.

Many people perceive the summer period as a time to wind down and enjoy the holiday. It is common to find people indulging themselves in activities that they find pleasurable. But most of the time, these pastimes are time-consuming at best and unproductive at worst. It is possible to enjoy your summer holiday and be productive. Many indulgements are productive and inclined towards personal development that you can get involved in during the summer. This article mentions ten options you can exploit on your next summer holiday.

Regardless of the system you use to manage your projects and tasks, both professional and personal, there is something that is rarely discussed when talking about personal productivity, and yet is the foundation of any healthy productive behavior: the strategic allocation of your time.

One of the reasons GTD has achieved great recognition as a personal productivity system is that it doesn’t reduce our daily activity to a simple set of tasks to be marked as done. That’s oversimplified. Although being productive is about getting more done with as little effort as possible, we aren’t machines. We’re human beings, and our actions must respond to something deeper.

Getting Things Done is a personal productivity method that is easy to learn as everything it teaches is common sense, yet it can be difficult to put into practice, at least at first. There are a number of habits you need to implement, and creating habits you don’t have can be hard.