The best kind of productivity is the one that creates impact and opportunity for you as well as other people.

Quiet productivity is all the unseen work that someone does to get to the next level – the early mornings, late nights, or other trade offs that are made in order to facilitate change. You see, what we perceive as someone’s overnight success is only ever surface-level stuff. Only you pay attention to you. No one else (unless you have a partner, or work with me one-on-one) gets to witness the hard work first-hand. Only the tip of an iceberg appears above the surface. In this month’s productivity report, we tackle loud productivity vs. quiet productivity, and when to choose which.

For a while now, I’ve been toying with the idea of creating a small home gym section in my finished basement. Why? Well, if you’ve been reading my monthly productivity reports, you know that my attitude toward exercise changes with the weather. When it’s cold and rainy, I have a hard time getting outside. I don’t want that to become an excuse, so I thought it would be a good idea to have a space where I can move regularly. I finally completed this project in December 2023. Here’s what happened…

Welcome, dear reader, to my latest calendar and schedule experiment. This year, I’ve been on the hunt for some new routines that would help me optimize my productivity during peak-energy hours. At this point, I believe I’ve found those extra hours and that implementation only requires one big shift – read on to find out what it is….