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How I Get Unstuck

Productivityist

A change of pace and scenery can do wonders, and I have found that simply by walking away that I have a renewed sense of vigor when I return to the keyboard. Often I’ll do the dishes or tidy up around the house in order to get my mind in a place where it can start to tackle the work challenges once again.

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Sleep your way to the top | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Check out these fast examples: You’ll make mistakes. It’s a great feeling to be able to sit down at the keyboard, fully confident in your ability, clean of any doubt or future-worry and, is especially great when the recommended 8.25 hours of sleep is achieved.

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The benefits of reading aloud | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Now, when I say ‘don’t write’, I don’t mean you should take a break or get away from the keyboard for a day. Take me, for example. Text-to-speech and speech-to-text are two great potential examples. I’m a pretty fast typist but it made me realise how unnatural it is to use a keyboard, or even a pen.

2010 40
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Creative Mind Cleaning | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

It would be much easier to keyboard it but I know it wouldn’t have the same effect as writing it by hand. I do feel much more comfortable with a keyboard than hand though. As for hand-writing versus keyboard, I too am much faster when using the latter, but for me, that’s not the point. I get hand cramps!

2010 40
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Realistic Freelancing |

Men With Pens

I am not a freelancer as such but I do work from home and I’ve training my boss and colleagues to stop arranging meetings after 4pm (still working on that one), I’ve been forcing myself to step away from the keyboard and to stop checking work emails after hours. Kenji – love James’ example in his comment.

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How to Improve Your Writing | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

This is where bloggers get a head start: if you have a blog, you have a good reason to put fingers to keyboard on a regular basis. For example, one of my favorite blogs is Liz Styles’ Damomma – I’ve been reading her blog for five years, despite having no kids and no plans to have kids any time soon.

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Are You Interfering With Your Readers' Lives?

Men With Pens

Take psychology-style self-help books as an example, arguably the single most destructive e-book on the internet today. No matter what the topic is, before you put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, be sure that you have the qualifications to write about whatever you are about to share. For example, Zen Habits.

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