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Mark Forster, a British author best known for his books on productivity, is like me.

It's no wonder many of us feel distracted, overwhelmed, and unable focus. Not to mention, of course, we've added a slew of options to our distraction arsenal: a buzzing smartphone, cat videos begging for clicks on social media, and the internet offering a 24-hour news cycle. A 2015 global study by Ernst and Young revealed that our modern working lives are increasingly complex - we work longer hours and we typically have more varied responsibilities. I’m not alone in my struggle to keep up with it all. Days go by before I realize I'm behind on areas of my writing business like sending invoices, marketing outreach, or editing the third draft of my novel.

I become so enamored with ball number three - like this article, I'm writing, I'm all in on productivity methods right now - that I forget to pick my head up. Some people are naturally organized, productive, and efficient they can see the big picture and not drop any of the thirteen balls they have up in the air. But after a month or two things start to fizzle. The strategy du jour works, at least temporarily. I’m getting things done, eating my frogs, feeling like a happy, productive, totally capable human being.

(The last title no doubt gives me away: I wasn’t exactly born color-coding my wardrobe.)īut I find trying out new productivity methods to be a lot like dating before I met my husband. My bookshelf overflows with productivity books: Organize Tomorrow Today, The Power of Habit, and It’s Hard to Make a Difference When You Can’t Find Your Keys. I’ve tried pretty much every productivity method out there - the Pomodoro Technique, David Allen’s ever-popular Getting Things Done, the Eat That Frog approach, to name a few.