Michael Sliwinski has just published Productive Magazine #4:

Productive! Magazine about Getting Things Done and Lifehacks.

[With] great articles like:

* How to delegate if you don’t have a staff? by Michael Hyatt
* How to be productive and balanced when working from home by Stephanie Dickison
* Poutsourcing by Mike Vardy
* Reflections on publishing sensation – Four-hour Workweek book review by Art Carden
* 7 Irrational thoughts that disrupt your life by Steven Aitchison
* Zen to Done – 14-30 days to a habit by yours truly [Michael, not me, Ed.]

This is another excellent offering from Michael, with one of my favorite articles being “How to be productive and balanced when working from home” – a concept near and dear to my heart. The two best tips in the article: Stick to your Schedule and Get Comfortable.

These are extremely important, as I can testify. If you do not create a schedule for your work-week it is very easy to get sidetracked and discover that you have just spent 2 hours on Tweetdeck and now your work for the day has to get crammed into a much shorter period! I like to use Charlie Gilkey’s weekly and monthly planners for freelancers at Productive Flourishing to plot out the basics of my upcoming tasks.

Also, being comfortable is so important. I used to work in my cramped home office while sitting in a metal folding chair. Seriously. About a year ago I broke down and bought myself an actual office chair with wheels and padding and arms and everything. What an amazing difference it made to my productivity! The only additions to my home office that beat it were adding a second monitor to my laptop computer setup and the Kanban Board.

Click the link at the top of the post to visit the Productive Magazine home page and watch a short video, or here (Productive Magazine) to download the PDF.

Thanks Michael, great job!

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