Productivity Archives - Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker

What’s the Best Stress Management Technique

Jeff Havens — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:16:40 +0000

Sometimes when I’m stressed I like to go down into my basement and play the drums. I’ve been playing them since I was 10, and one of the things I’ve always liked about them is that you can hit them as hard as you want. You’re supposed to hit them, in fact – that’s the…

The post What’s the Best Stress Management Technique appeared first on Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker.

Effective Stress Management Techniques for the Holiday Season and Beyond

Jeff Havens — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 20:13:07 +0000

It’s the holidays! Which means that, if you’re like most people, you’re more stressed than festive. So I thought this would be a good time to discuss some effective ways to deal with stress – not just during the shop-until-you-cry season, but all year round. “That sounds great!” you might be saying. “But you don’t…

The post Effective Stress Management Techniques for the Holiday Season and Beyond appeared first on Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker.

How to Improve Yourself When You Have Excess Downtime

Jeff Havens — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:38:55 +0000

The pandemic has brought a grand reckoning to almost every element of our lives, but the one I’d like to focus on here is how it has forced us to figure out what to do when we might feel there is nothing to do. In fact, if you can ignore for a moment the various…

The post How to Improve Yourself When You Have Excess Downtime appeared first on Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker.

How To Become More Productive By Doing Less Work

Jeff Havens — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:14:32 +0000

You’d be forgiven for thinking I chose the title for this article specifically to trick you into reading. People do that all the time now, like “Lose Twenty Pounds With This 2-Minute Exercise Miracle!” or “Six Easy Steps To Make a Million Dollars!” Unfortunately, most of those articles don’t deliver what they’ve promised, although I…

The post How To Become More Productive By Doing Less Work appeared first on Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker.

Why “Doing Nothing” Should Be A Part Of Your Workday

Jeff Havens — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:23:55 +0000

Warren Buffett. I’m beginning this way because starting this article off with his name will probably help me in web search rankings, and I’m a slave to Internet algorithms. I also did it because he’s crazy rich and yet somehow people don’t hate him for it, which is a pretty impressive feat. And I also…

The post Why “Doing Nothing” Should Be A Part Of Your Workday appeared first on Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker.

How to Accomplish More By Doing Less

Jeff Havens — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 15:30:09 +0000

Sweden. The very name conjures images of yodeling shepherd women and…wait, no that’s Germany. Ah yes, the majestic fjords of…hold on, that’s Norway. White sandy beaches sounds more Caribbean-y. What’s Sweden known for, anyway? Well, according to this article, Sweden is best known as the place trying to figure out how to help people work…

The post How to Accomplish More By Doing Less appeared first on Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker.

A Brief Case-Study in Laziness

Jeff Havens — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:00:46 +0000

Hey guys. You know how you sometimes are assigned a 5-page paper for a class, and instead of actually writing five pages you write three pages and then play with the font size, spacing, margins, and whatever else you can think of until you have a sentence and a half on that critical fifth…

The post A Brief Case-Study in Laziness appeared first on Jeff Havens | Keynote Speaker | Leadership Keynote Speaker.