4 Getting Things Done vs. Zen To Done
4 Happiness of Productive People
4 Tips on Fighting Procrastination
4 Decluttering your Life and Work Space
4 2-minute Productivity Tricks

Articles from the Best Productivity Bloggers talking about:

f you\u2019re reading this first, inaugural
issue of theP roductive!Magazine,
chances are you\u2019re just like me
\u2013 a busy professional who just

Being overwhelmed by the amount
of stuff I had to do and the streams of
information I was receiving on a daily
basis, I needed a system to take control of
all this. More than a system, I needed a set
of practical tips that would help me take
control of my life and get more done. Most
of this has been delivered by the book
I read \u2013 \u201cGetting Things Done and the Art

The book was still not enough. I needed
a tool and some practical tricks and
\u201ccheats\u201d that would really make me stay
productive every single day. As I didn\u2019t find
the right tool on the market, I built one
using my company\u2019s resources and called it
\u201cNozbe \u2013 Simply Get Things Done!\u201d.

When my application quickly became
popular among productivity bloggers,
I discovered the wealth of information
provided by the GTD (Getting Things Done)
blog community. I read and bookmarked
many great articles with very useful tips
and tricks to help me \u201chack\u201d my life.

This is when I found out that even
though my Nozbe tool was doing a great
job at helping people stay productive and
focused, my users needed more than just
this tool. I began preparing a \u201c10-step

started as a series of articles and ended up
as a series of videos viewed totally more
than 20,000 times on YouTube. I continued
the video path with the \u201c2-minute

When the idea of a downloadable PDF
magazine came up, I realized this would be
something many of us busy professionals

have been asking for. Although I had
written several articles for the GTDtimes
blog to date, this time I decided to simply
turn to the \u201csocial productivity wisdom\u201d
and invite the best productivity experts
to contribute to the magazine and let them
talk to you through their best articles and
blog posts. Based on my long history of
blog readership I decided to personally
invite the people I\u2019ve come to know and
respect in the blogosphere and I\u2019m really
happy they accepted my invitation.

Thanks to their great contributions, in
this first issue of theP roductive!Magazine
you\u2019ll find 15 great articles about different
approaches to getting things done (i.e.

\u201czen to done\u201d), happiness, tips on fighting
procrastination, de-cluttering your life and
other useful \u201ccheats\u201d and \u201chacks\u201d that will
definitely help you live a productive and
meaningful life.

All the included articles are real gems, but
one of them deserves an extra introduction.
This first issue of the Productive Magazine
will feature an exclusive interview with the
author of the \u201cproductivity bible\u201d \u2013 David
Allen himself \u2013 the best-selling author of
the \u201cGetting Things Done\u201d book will talk

I met David personally on one of his
seminars (see photo) and we had a great
chat so I\u2019m really happy he decided
to contribute to our magazine.

Michael Sliwinski is the founder ofNozbe \u2013 a web application
that helps thousands of busy professionals and companies get
their things done (also available for the mobile phone and
iPhone). He actively participates in the GTD community as
a blogger, a host of the \u201c2-minute Productivity Show\u201d,
a contributor to the GTDtimes blog and recently the
editor of theP roductive!Magazine. Michael holds a
master degree in Business Economics and a bachelor in
Marketing and Management. He fluently speaks English,
German, Spanish and Polish.

Without further ado, I encourage you
to read the interview with David Allen and
all the 17 great articles by their respective
contributors. Under each article there is
a short biography of each blogger and
a link to their blog as well as a the online
version of the article so you can add your
comments and join the live discussion on
their blogs.

Lastly, I\u2019d like
to dedicate this
entire magazine
to the living memory

\u2013 a great blogger,
my personal GTD guru and a close friend. At
age of 50, Marc passed away after suffering
a massive heart attack on 9th December
2007. I wouldn\u2019t have achieved so much
in the GTD community without his help.
Thanks Marc \u2013 our prayers are with you!