Over the past year, we’ve quietly worked on Lifeline, a new Saent application for macOS, which is now ready for testing. Lifeline is based on the Pomodoro Technique. It helps you focus and ensures you take sufficient breaks, so you build a productive, healthy, and fulfilling daily rhythm for work and life. Click here to… Continue reading
Most productivity and time-management methodologies help us deal with information overload. How to organize data, which tasks to prioritize, what to work on next, projects to delegate to others, and so on. While these skills are essential, our age of everything, all the time requires an approach that deals with an additional set of challenges…. Continue reading
Imagine this: you’re headed for the supermarket to buy groceries. You plan to spend $25 on a bunch of tomatoes, fresh juice, a bottle of wine, and half a loaf of bread. Somehow nothing goes according to plan. You end up spending $150 (!) on bananas, diapers, champagne, and, indeed, half a loaf of bread. Oh,… Continue reading
Many productivity experts recommend planning your next day the evening before. It allows you to “hit the ground running.” For me this doesn’t work. When I reach the end of my day, my mind is exhausted. Not in a negative way, but more like how your body feels after finishing a run or workout; a… Continue reading
When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007 he proclaimed that, “It works like magic.” And he was right. Smartphones are pocket-sized computers that allow us to do things that would have seemed like magic just ten years ago. Stuck somewhere without a ride? You can call a cab with a single click. Need the… Continue reading
It looks like you’re putting on some weight. A snack here, a snack there. It’s starting to show. But, I’m not talking about your physical appearance. There’s a new form of obesity — one caused by digital junk food. We’re online all the time. We fragment our attention between a million things. We work when… Continue reading
Successful people read a lot. Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Elon Musk: they all read. This is not surprising. Picking up a book allows you to connect directly with a great mind (assuming you’re reading a good book, that is). But most of us don’t read all that many books. Depending on how you… Continue reading
I often get asked, “what is your number one productivity tip?” The answer is consistency. Arriving at this answer did not come easy. I have been interested in productivity for almost a decade. I’ve read countless books and research papers on the topic. I’ve tried tons of apps and other tools. I’ve received some training… Continue reading
Taking breaks at the right time and for the right amount of time is a key to the healthy work rhythm that Saent encourages people to follow. Breaks are important for a number of reasons, and not taking them can lead to stress, burnout, poor productivity, and poor work quality. In this guest post at… Continue reading
In parts I and II of this series on “The 30 Minutes of Focus Challenge” we covered the why and the how. But now that you have that half hour of uninterrupted time per day, what can you do with it? You might already have some ideas about what to use this time for, but… Continue reading