About
I've published several books (names below) on productivity, all rooted in a social justice perspective. Writer's block, procrastination, and other forms of underproductivity are all rooted in disempowerment: identify and resolve the disempowering forces in your life and work, and you should see your productivity rise. (Corollary: "laziness," "lack of discipline," etc., are symptoms, not causes. Resolve the disempowerment, and they should also go away.)
Also, I've characterized perfectionism more broadly, and usefully, than others.
In 2018, I started work on an alternative-history novel with significant social justice themes, set in the world of 19th century whaling. From 2022 on, I've worked on it full time, and expect to have the manuscript completed by EOY 2024.
BOOK TITLES
Productivity is Power: 5 Liberating Practices for College Students (Infinite Art, 2022)
The Journey is the Reward: 15 Years of Blogging on Productivity, Love, and Life (Infinite Art, 2023)
It's Not You, It's Your Strategy: Finding Work in a Tough Job Market (Infinite Art, 2008)
The 7 Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Writer's Block (Infinite Art, 2011 - currently being revised).
The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (Lantern Books, 2006)
Prior to my productivity work, I wrote hundreds of articles in top tech and business magazines, including Wired, Working Woman, Inc. Technology, PC Magazine, VARBusiness, and Computer Reseller News.
I've also published short fiction, including a science fiction story in Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine. I'm a graduate of the famed Clarion SF Writers Workshop, where my teachers included Ursula K. LeGuin, Samuel R. Delaney, and Octavia Butler, among others.
Featured Work
Productivity is Power: 5 Liberating Practices for College Students
Can't finish your work?
Can't start it?
Feel like your grades don't reflect your potential?
These days, there's more pressure on college students than perhaps ever before. A bad economy makes it even more important to get great grades, get great internships or work-study experiences, and to graduate with a great plan. The competition at every stage is intense, and so is the stress. Meanwhile, social media isn't helping. Not only is it massively distracting, it's full of competitive, critical, negative, and otherwise destructive messages.
At the same time, you're probably dealing with all the "normal" productivity challenges that most people face, including procrastination, perfectionism, and time crunch.
Traditional productivity books for general audiences can help some, but what's really needed is a book that addresses college students' unique needs and productivity challenges. Productivity is Power is that book. It will help you:
*Locate, understand, and overcome your barriers to productivity and success so that you can become immediately more productive, successful, and happy.
*Start your work on time, work steadily on it, and hand it on time. (Or early!)
*Work through problems and obstacles. (No procrastination or derailments!)
*Handle mistakes, failures, and other setbacks.
*Manage your time well, so that you can succeed academically while also living a healthy, happy, and balanced life. And,
*Work more effectively with your professors, teaching assistants, and other academic personnel.
And much more! Productivity is Power also offers many unique, and uniquely effective, solutions, including:
*Re-Empowerment. How to locate and remedy the specific forms of disempowerment that keep you from doing your work.
*Compassionate Objectivity. The mindset that neutralizes perfectionism while maintaining accountability and a success orientation.
*Timed Work Intervals, Randomization, “Dialoguing with the Critic,” and other solutions to perfectionism.
*The Joyful Dance, a highly effective work method founded on principles of personal empowerment and compassionate objectivity.
*Values-Based Time Management, which helps you achieve not just maximum empowerment and productivity in the short term, but maximum success and happiness over the course of your career.
*Many solutions for common writing and work problems including not finishing, not submitting, over-researching, constantly starting over, and avoidance (of difficult parts of the project). Also, for efficient decision-making both within and around projects.
*Solutions for coping with criticism, rejection, and perceived failures. And,
*Solutions for “digital distraction,” online harassment, and other 21st Century obstacles to work and success.
...all of which will help today's undergraduate not just succeed, but thrive.
Don't procrastinate on achieving your full potential! Get Productivity is Power now for yourself, or for the student, teacher, counselor, advisor, coach, or parent in your life.
