There are points when the only thing you can do — despite desperately wanting to be productive — is to step back for a few minutes. And while conventional productivity wisdom seems to dictate that you should use those few minutes to get a small task done or get a bit ahead on a future…

Most people have negative habits they are holding on to. Smoking, procrastination, Freddy Prinze Jnr movies; how do we quit? Dr. Sharon House indicates the problem isn’t battling your, maybe, weak will, but rather that you’re not identifying the habit’s payoffs. These negative payoffs are really what keep you involved in the habit. The key…

John Wesley from PickTheBrain.com wrote an interesting article for ZenHabits based on a simple idea. If you have a bad habit you want to break, instead of just taking that part of your life away, leaving an ‘empty’ space, you could substitute it with a good habit. It’s a two step process that first requires you…

Deborah Perelman at eWeek tells us this may be true because you never could step through 8 hours of work without taking any break. She argues that finding the balance, she calls it Slacker-Worker Equilibrium, will allow us to do work more efficiently. Some managers disagree on this. They expect employees to work through the office…