Beyond Trying is an eBook that compiles some of the best work Mike Vardy has written at Productivityist about productivity, workflows, task, and time management since its transition from a personal blog to its present state. In Beyond Trying, you'll get 23 essays of various lengths delivered in one easy-to-digest eBook format.
Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker, podcaster, and “productivityist”. He has served as the Managing Editor at Lifehack, and contributed articles on productivity to 99u, Lifehacker, The Next Web, SUCCESS Magazine, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of such books as The Front Nine: How To Start The Year You Want Anytime You Want (published by Diversion Books), The Productivityist Workbook, and The NOW Year: A Practical Guide to Calendar Management.
Mike has delivered talks on the topic of task and time management at events like New Media Expo, Social Media Camp, TEDx Victoria, SXSW interactive, and delivered a three-day online workshop for the popular online education platform creativeLIVE. Mike also hosts The Productivityist Podcast, a weekly podcast that focuses on productivity.
Mike lives in Victoria, BC, Canada with his amazing and supportive wife, daughter, and son.
Mike Vardy gathered here different impressions about what's important in our daily life routines. There are some suggestions on what tools to use, how to organize your time and don't loose focus to stay productive. This word is more about how to make your life easier and better than success focused and profitable. So Mike is not a business expert type, but a "don't make your life harder" kind of guy, who shows us his thoughts on organizing the reality in and around us.