Work Life (& Productivity) Tips

A four-panel comic strip showing a woman creating an effort pact by placing her phone in a box across the room, hesitating to retrieve it, and ultimately working with calm focus at her desk.

How to Make Distractions Feel Too Inconvenient to Bother With

October 17, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Learn how to make distractions feel inconvenient by adding small physical hurdles that nudge you back to focus without relying on willpower alone.

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How to Find Your Best Work Routine: The Explore-Exploit Method

October 17, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Learn how to use the explore-exploit method to find and stick with a work routine that actually delivers results. Test quickly, choose wisely, then let consistency compound your progress.

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The Second-Pass Safety Net: How to Catch Work Mistakes Before You Send

October 17, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Learn a simple four-step ritual to catch work mistakes before you send. Discover why your focused brain misses obvious details and how a 30-second second pass can save you from...

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Redefine Productivity: The Power of Keeping Promises to Yourself

October 17, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Discover how redefining productivity as keeping promises to yourself—rather than doing everything—can transform overwhelm into calm, intentional control.

Stop Judging Colleagues: Why Context Matters More Than Character

October 17, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Learn the pause-and-ask technique that stops workplace judgements in their tracks. Before labelling a colleague's character, consider what situation might explain their behaviour—this simple shift improves relationships and decision-making.

Why Your Cluttered Workspace Is Sabotaging Tomorrow (And How to Fix It in 60 Seconds)

October 17, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Walking away from a cluttered workspace creates tomorrow's resistance. Discover the one-minute reset routine that transforms your next work session before it even begins, using proven environment design principles to...

A four-panel comic strip showing a person's journey from feeling overwhelmed by daily decisions to successfully implementing smart defaults, with their mental energy battery going from depleted to fully charged.

How to Set Smart Defaults and Reclaim Your Mental Energy

October 17, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Learn how to set smart defaults and stop draining your mental energy on trivial daily choices. Discover a simple four-step system to reduce decision fatigue and keep your brain battery...

A four-panel comic strip showing a woman at her desk adjusting her task difficulty from overwhelming to manageable, illustrating how to find the just-right level of challenge for productive work.

How to Find Your Just-Hard-Enough Work Level to Beat Procrastination

October 16, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Discover how to find your 'just-hard-enough' work level—the sweet spot where tasks feel engaging rather than overwhelming—and beat procrastination by matching difficulty to your current capacity.

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How to Turn Team Differences into Better Solutions

October 15, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Discover a practical four-step process that transforms team differences from sources of conflict into building blocks for breakthrough solutions, helping your team collaborate more effectively.

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The Notification Diet: How to Reclaim Your Focus from Digital Distractions

October 14, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Discover the four-step notification diet that helps you reclaim your focus by defaulting to silence and only enabling alerts that truly serve your priorities.

How to Match Your Work to Your Energy Levels

October 14, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Learn how to match your work tasks to your natural energy levels throughout the day, so you can tackle complex work when you're fresh and handle routine tasks when your...

Why Social Intelligence at Work Matters More Than You Think

October 13, 2025The Brainzyme Team

Discover why social intelligence—listening, reading the room, and handling conflict—is just as important as traditional measures of intelligence, and learn practical ways to develop these essential workplace skills.