Tag: productivity
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If You Understand Your Patterns, You Understand Your Productivity
Almost a year of logging her own creative workflow — and letting AI find the patterns. Here’s what she learned about building a productivity system that adapts to you, not the other way around.
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Energy-Based Workflow: Creating While Ill
For the past couple of weeks, my body has been calling the shots. Sinus infection, throat infection, vaccine fatigue—it feels like I’ve slept more than I’ve been awake. I’ve lost whole stretches of days to rest, naps, and doctor visits. And still, the work goes on. Not in the full-force way I love. Not in…
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I Asked 5 AI Models to Analyze My Workflow—Here’s What I Learned (and Why You Might Want to Try It)
It started with a simple question: Could an AI help me understand how I actually work? I’m a high-output writer—fiction, blog posts, audiobooks, formatting, metadata, cover art, automation, the whole publishing pipeline. I’d been logging my work habits for 2 months, watching myself churn through chapters and marketing, edits and uploads, sprints and stalls. So…
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AI-Assistive for the Win: Organizing 63 Pieces in a Minute
I’m not sure when I first started blogging, but there was a 19 in every day’s date. I’d already been published by a major traditional publisher and had hit a bestseller list under a pen name, but my very first regular posts—raw, reflective, and homemade—had a following of 70,000+. Indie publishing was just taking root,…
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How I Learned to Work Like Myself – Finally!
Maybe you’re not burned out. Maybe you’re simply working against yourself. For years, I’ve chased productivity systems that didn’t fit. Not that they didn’t work to some degree, but I was force-fitting my natural rhythms into a structure that wasn’t natural to my brain and body’s rhythms. That meant I was spending time, energy, and…
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Bed-Rotting as a Productivity Hack
Discover how the counterintuitive practice of bed-rotting can significantly enhance your productivity. Bed-rotting is not something I ever would have considered as a productivity hack. I wasn’t even aware of the term until this past year. Maybe it’s counterintuitive. Maybe it’s because it’s been drilled into me since I was a child that staying in…
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The Queen of Multi-Tasking
I seem to be either concentrating on ONE thing, so focused that I could forget anything else going on for a little while or…. Well, okay, that’s actually rare. It’s usually something creative or someone or some subject I feel intensely about but it’s still very rare that I’m focused on just one thing, especially…
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Focus for April: Ebb and Flow but Mostly Flow
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree and Rising. I’m not sure where the first three months of this year have gone. I certainly have plenty to show for it, yet it doesn’t seem that it should have passed so quickly. Then again, it’s been good that it passed without further delay, given…
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Lining ‘Em Up
My guides had told me that I’d be in superproductive mode for about 6 weeks, and I am. I was told that some would be brand new ideas and others would be pots of gold I’d been sitting on, and they are. I was also told that all my projects would line up easily (their…
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Calm Before the Storm
I’d thought that the Thanksgiving break was going to be about having the downtime to get some projects finished. Like editing the rest of Third Degree of Separation and getting it off to the printer. The cover is done, after all. It’s not that much work. Or maybe I’d get a good chunk of A…
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Technology Overload!
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Curves. Okay, I’ve been a little too plugged in. Last year, I turned down a Blackberry for email and a cell phone for the consulting part of my day job. No to the beeper, too. Pretty amazing when you consider how much I like new gadgets.…
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The To-Do-Do-Do List
For such a crazy week, today turned out pretty good in that ordinary, mundane sort of way. Though I knew when I wrote shave my legs on my to-do list, I was already too busy. From the Bookshelf Unapologetically Happy — 23 lessons from a life reimagined, and your permission slip to find happiness on…
