Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker and podcaster on productivity. His main site is Productivityist.com. He's given talks on productivity and technology, as well as several featured keynotes and workshops related to time, task, project, and goal management.

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• Productivityist = a person who wants to get more efficient and more effective with their work
  
• Working on ways to get better work done
  
• Stop doing productivity and start being productive. - @MikeVardy Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,'script','twitter-wjs'); Buffertweetable text
  
• How do you determine the need for a new tool, how do you test a tool
  
• A More Meaningful To Do List - The Omnifocus Setup
  
• Projects first, tasks second
  
• Have to do’s are fine, but you also need to have want to do’s. - @MikeVardy Tweet!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src='//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,'script','twitter-wjs'); Buffertweetable text
  
• Projects vs. tasks
  
• Jon Acuff - START
  
• Green Lantern - Willpower vs. Fear
  
• Chris Brogan You Are Your Own Superhero
  
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
  
• The Best Upgrade Is You by Patrick Rhone
  
• Low energy productivity
  
• The Front Nine
  
• Mike’s on Mic’s
  

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