29 ways to stay creative. How To Stay Productive After Work. I've had to come to terms with this.
I have ideas for things that would be cool, but I'm usually too tired in the evening. After getting everyone fed, I just want to sit on the couch and watch YouTube. My husband has been great, nudging me towards not beating myself up over needing to relax. If I don't have the energy, I just don't have the energy, and I need to tend to that, not push myself until I fall over in a heap. This article is probably for the single people on this site with no kids (93% of readers). Also, why YouTube? I am seriously addicted to Let's Plays of various RPGs, especially ones that I played when I was a kid, but only vaguely remember now. How to Train Your Brain to Stay Focused. As an entrepreneur, you have a lot on your plate.
Staying focused can be tough with a constant stream of employees, clients, emails, and phone calls demanding your attention. Amid the noise, understanding your brain’s limitations and working around them can improve your focus and increase your productivity. Our brains are finely attuned to distraction, so today's digital environment makes it especially hard to focus. "Distractions signal that something has changed," says David Rock, co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and author of Your Brain at Work (HarperCollins, 2009). "A distraction is an alert says, 'Orient your attention here now; this could be dangerous.'" Related: 8 Tips for Finding Focus and Nixing Distractions While multitasking is an important skill, it also has a downside. To make matters worse, distraction feels great.
Related: The Truth About Multitasking: How Your Brain Processes Information Try these three tips to help you become more focused and productive: 1. 2. The Science of Productivity. 5 Ways To Innovate By Cross-Pollinating Ideas. Editors’ note: The following is an adapted excerpt of InGenius (Harper One) by Tina Seelig.
What happens when you cross a checkerboard with a midnight snack? You get edible checkers, sold with the motto "beat ’em and eat ’em. " What if you cross high-heeled shoes with a tricycle? You get pumps with training wheels. Or, what do you get when you cross a dessert plate with an ice-cube tray? These are just a few of the wonderfully fanciful ideas in John Cassidy and Brendan Boyle’s The Klutz Book of Inventions. This is similar to the philosophy behind the Japanese art of chindōgu, which involves coming up with "unuseless" inventions. 1.
Being able to connect and combine nonobvious ideas and objects is essential for innovation and a key part of the creative-thinking process. Alan Murray, head of the School of Design at the Edinburgh College of Art, gave his former graduate students at the Technical University of Eindhoven a surprising assignment to help them hone these skills. 2. 3. 4. 5. Why You Should Try Sketching (Even If You Can't Draw)
21 Chrome Web apps for serious work. The Chrome browser is rapidly gaining fans and developers are responding by creating apps that will help keep you productive in Google's browser.
Add these 21 apps to a Chromebook, and you'll have great tools for working anywhere. Some of these apps, like Citrix Receiver, will run only on a Chromebook. Most, however, will run in the Chrome browser on any OS, and some are just links to a Web page. Google Chromebooks, by the way, keep gaining features that make them more appealing as thin clients in a business setting. The latest update to the Chrome OS brought VPN and secure Wi-Fi support (802.1X), in addition to speed boosts. Inventer avec Office. Inventer avec Office.
Notes. The Pen & Paper: the most underrated creativity and productivity tool. I decided to write this entire article up using a pen and paper, with the intention of typing it up once I was done.
I only got about four paragraphs in before my hand started to ache, and my paper was a mess of scrawls, crossed out sentences, quickly becoming more and more illegible as I went further down the page. The last time I wrote something of this length by hand was probably in university during an exam, and I can’t imagine how I did it then.
But there is something to be said for the simplicity of the pen and paper. Whether it’s a mundane to-do list or the beginnings of a best-selling novel, using a pen and paper can be very satisfying, if not a little messy. The act of putting pen to paper, of making an effort, together with your inherently personal handwriting has both practical and emotional benefits. The Practicality of Pen and Paper While typing can be more efficient, a pen and paper is often much more practical. Getting More Done Enhance the Creative Process Beyond Writing.