Tag: productivity

The most challenging environment to blog in?

Posted on by philipdodson


Well, I’m not sure my environment today counts as the most challenging, but it has been trying!

I’m currently returning from holiday on an EasyJet flight and I’m surrounded by young kids, including in the seat right next to me and 3 hours in and the kids have reached the ‘are we there yet?’ stage.

When I land, I’m heading home to shower, change bags, pickup up some work stuff and heading straight back to the airport to head to Berlin to co-facilitate a workshop.

So now is the only time to write on a noisy plane, at 35,000 feet and on my iPhone.

Ok, so typing hanging one handed from a cliff in a gale might be harder.

The point is if you set your mind to it you can work in distracting places and if you use your time wisely you can always get stuff done.

Don’t work hard, go deep

Posted on by philipdodson


It’s not about hard work in terms of volume of hours spent engage in activities. 

It is about work less volume but going deeper into focused work so that we have more time for guilt free leisure and relaxation. 

Putting things off, often occurs as we find work a chore and a lengthy interruption to the things we really want to do with family and friends. 

Deep focused work centred on our priorities and goals creates our best work. This leads to greater value, a greater sense of fulfilment and thus better wellness. 
Also, by doing deep work we get more done in a shorter time allowing more leisure time, more relaxation and thus feeling better and therefore more equipped to work better. 

So being more productive leads to working less which leads to more time to relax, recharge and that leads to more productive and less and less procrastination. 

Work with purpose and focus not long resent-filled days.