Posts Tagged ‘flow’

12 Tips to Improve the Quality of Your Free Time

Are you happier at your job, or during your free time? Unless you’ve followed the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi you would probably be surprised at the actual answer. He conducted studies which recorded peoples current levels of happiness at random points both during work and off-hours.

The surprising conclusion? People felt happier on the job, even though they said they would rather be at home.

Csikszentmihalyi believes that… » Continue

December 20 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: boredom, flow, games, hobby, leisure, Productivity | 40 comments»

10 Tips for Razor Sharp Concentration

Writing to-do lists and keeping a schedule may keep you organized, but does it really help you get more done? I believe that organization is important, but what you really need is focus. Being able to sit down and concentrate intensely on your work for a few hours. Even a half hour of focused effort can get more done than an entire day of distraction and… » Continue

July 26 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: concentration, distraction, flow, objective, Productivity | 77 comments»

Achieve Flow by Hacking Your Tasks

You know what it feels like to be completely engaged in a task. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi coined the term flow to describe this state. Flow is crucial to performing any intellectual task. But how do you achieve it?

Hack Your Tasks

You won’t get flow with the carrot or the stick. External pressures are unlikely to really engage you with your task. If you want to get… » Continue

May 3 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: flow, hack, task, time | 4 comments»

Zero second Interruptions

The day has come. If you think email, IM, blogs, RSS, MySpace are the king of interruptions - try again. Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users introduces a service called Twitter which is basically a community answering one simple question: “What are you doing?”

Not that I am impressed by the service, but the article brought out an interesting point - technologies is getting quicker and less turnaround on responses… » Continue

December 8 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flow, interruption, Productivity | 2 comments»

Free eBook: Little book of Flow

Nick at blog Life 2.0 releases a small eBook (or huge essay) called ‘Little book of Flow’, which shows how to get into the state of flow and be extremely productive and getting things done. ‘Flow’ as introduced multiple times before, it is a state when we are doing something really enjoy - time flies, ideas streams, productivity is at high peak. This book looks into its detail… » Continue

November 23 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flow, Productivity | 8 comments»

Course of Actions - Task Flow Mapping Your Day

One of the things I’ve found when listing out tasks and actions, is the difficulty of organizing a list into a logical flow. Most of my day is filled with tasks that I need or want to complete in a specific order, and I wanted a simple way to map out the flow of my day. When I set out to find a way to do this, I had several… » Continue

October 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flow, Productivity, task | 31 comments»

Getting into Flow

When is your productivity peak? For me it must be when I am fully focused into the task at hand - i.e. when I am in flow. Michael Buffington shares his ways of getting into the state of flow. He mentions couple of ways, mainly on isolation, environment and time:

- Pepsi. Sad but true, the caffeine seems to help steady me. I will feel the sugar crash in about 2… » Continue

September 19 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flow, Productivity | 1 comment»

Finding flow in everyday life

From Ask MetaFilter, there is an interesting question on how to find ‘flow’ in the more routine things and tasks. Why is it interesting? I never thought of one can optimize the experience of a routine task, such as commuting or household work:

… My question is to those who might be familiar with his work and have incorporated it into their everyday life: How do you find ‘Flow’ in the… » Continue

March 7 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flow, life | 1 comment»