Productivity and Life Hacks

Thoughts on Productivity and Life Hacks, with an aim of finding harmony in life while living with a family, friends, work and multisports.

Notes on Sleeping Redux: Build Your Own Sleeping Plan

The idea behind the literature search on sleeping was to try and understand more about the topic so that I could come up with a sleeping strategy, one that included a knowledge of how to 'hack my sleep' in order to get more bang for my buck.

Getting the Most from Pzizz

While working on trying to hack and optimize my sleep, I came across Pzizz, a piece of software that has helped my wife and I become better nappers and get better sleep.

17 Articles and Some Notes on Sleep and Napping

As part of the experiment in making time, I want to do a little sleep hacking. Thing is, I needed to learn a few things about sleep first.

One Week of An Experiment in Making Time, and Moving Big Rocks Before Sunrise

Well, one week has passed since beginning the Experiment in Making Time. I've learnt a few lessons and this week I will be tweaking a few things to try and squeeze more (effective) time.

Optimizing Sleep and an Introduction to Pzizz

As part of the Experiment in Making Time, I am looking to optimize my sleep. Now, I do not have trouble sleeping, but I do often find myself a little tired and I'm sure my production, training and recovery suffers because of it.

Have a Longer Day: An Experiment in Making Time

A blog post titled How to Have a 36 Hour Day has inspired me to gain more functional time in a given day. That is, how can I turn my current 24 hours into something more? How can I get more from my 24 hours a day? That's the focus of a little experiment I'm going to do.

When Training Principles Become Life Principals

When Training Principles Become Life Principals As I attempt to make my way back to the world of the fit multisport people, I've discovered something that can maybe be taken from the multisport world and applied to normal everyday life. A training method that can used to hone personal improvement efforts as much as skill and speed at swim/bike/run: periodization.