Productivity

Make the most out of your 24 hours every day!

If your biggest side hustle holdup is a lack of time, these posts and podcasts episodes will help you build more efficiency into your weeks.

Productivity is a constant journey and I’m always experimenting with new hacks and tactics.

5 Core Habits

In a decade of studying productivity methods and “hacks”, I’ve found that just a handful of keystone habits tend to make the biggest impact on my personal productivity.

Those keystone habits are:

Setting short-term “sprint” goals, and breaking those down into the smallest actionable steps.
Identifying your top 1-3 priorities each day and measuring your progress on those.
Practicing gratitude.
Establishing and tracking too-small-to-fail “micro habits”.
Identifying and tracking your Key Performance Indicators.

These are the habits I baked into The Progress Journal. It’s a physical paperback journal I use to keep me on track and making meaningful progress.

It’s not a huge time commitment or massive lifestyle shift. In fact, using this journal should take less than 5 minutes a day.

Click here to learn more and see if it’s a fit for you.

Short on Time? 6 Ways to Improve Your Side Hustle Energy

April 22, 2019October 13, 2014

Time is our most valuable commodity, and it’s uniquely egalitarian; we’re all dealt the same 24-hours each day.

But it’s also a non-renewable resource — once it’s used up it’s used up.

That means we have to be conscious of how we use our time, of how we invest it.

And I’ll use the word “invest” rather than the word “spend” because I believe side hustling time, business-building time, is an investment — an investment in your future that will, with any luck, result in MORE time down the road.

55: How Side Hustlers Can Get More Done in Less Time

August 28, 2023June 12, 2014

In this edition of The Side Hustle Show, I’m joined by Chandler Bolt, co-author of The Productive Person: A how-to guide book filled with productivity hacks & daily schedules for entrepreneurs, students or anyone struggling with work-life balance.

When Chandler first reached out, I was excited to learn we had a lot in common, including both being Eagle Scouts and both having run house painting companies in college.

In fact, he cites selling candy at summer camp as one of his first entrepreneurial pursuits — just like me.

The Cold Shower Challenge

October 15, 2018May 27, 2014

For the last 2 months, I’ve only taken cold showers.

Why?

Because Nick Reese challenged me to do it when we recorded last week’s podcast session back in March, and now I’m afraid if I break the streak I won’t want to start again.

Bryn and my friends think I’m crazy. They’re probably right.

But call it a coincidence — things have been going pretty well since I turned on that cold water!

The I Done This and Daily Gratitude Challenge

June 18, 2020January 13, 2014

What work did you do yesterday? The day before?

Up until a month ago, I wouldn’t have had a good answer for you.

But now, I’m keeping track of what I get done each day, and it feels great. I first learned about this little mindset/productivity/work hack from Ari Meisel. (Remember Ari from The Side Hustle Show?).

He recommended an automated service called I Done This.

29: 6 Productivity Hacks for Side Hustlers

August 28, 2023November 21, 2013

In Episode 29 of The Side Hustle Show, Timo Kiander of ProductiveSuperdad.com shares his top 6 productivity hacks for side hustlers to maximize their time and output. We also get into a fun discussion about managing email, something I definitely have an unhealthy addiction to. This conversation is built on years of experience and research, … Read more

The Outsourced Writing Experiment

September 9, 2019November 4, 2013

For my latest book project, I had this wonderful idea that if I could get someone else to do the writing, I could get it to market faster. I was super busy and eager to expand my self-publishing efforts. The Idea You may have heard the stories of successful Kindle authors who actually use ghostwriters … Read more

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