Finally the issue number #5 of your favorite productivity magazine is available for you to enjoy… and it looks like this:

To this issue I’ve invited a friend of mine and one of my personal productivity gurus - Luis “Miguel Guia” Urrea (here’s the link to our video interview) where he shares his productivity tips and tricks and most of all how he’s been shaping good habits throughout his life.

In this issue we’ve got great articles by a bunch of really fantastic bloggers:

Michael Hyatt talks about scheduling “alone time”
Leo Babauta outlines his “frictionless life”
Howard Flomberg talks about “efficient meetings”
… and there are many more great articles inside

Download your newest Productive Magazine #5 as a free PDF now!

You can also click here to browse past issues and subscribe to our Newsletter

Enjoy and have a great and productive rest of the week and weekend

Long time no write, but we’re finally wrapping up the 5th issue of the Productive Magazine and for this one we prepared an exclusive trailer-interview with this issue’s interviewee: Luis “Miguel Guia” Urrea - my productivity and business mentor, a sculptor, painter, sportsman and businessman.

Here’s the interview - it’s been recorded in HD, so make sure to watch in in full screen in HD if you can. It’s been done mostly in Spanish so it’s subtitled. The subtitles don’t show up on the iPad or iPhone (where the video is shown in HTML5) but it’s Youtube’s fault and should be fixed soon. If you watch the video on your PC or Mac, subtitles will show up just fine.

Anyway, enjoy:

Hope you’ve enjoyed the video, curious how the new magazine will look like, here’s the sneak peak of the cover:

We’ve always wanted the Productive Magazine to look really stunning on your computer screens and we’ve been praised for the professional looks of our free PDF magazine. However, we’ve recently found out that the fonts we used in the magazine are somehow (for reasons we don’t understand) not readable on the Apple’s iPhone and the newly launched iPad.

Announcing Productive Magazines #4 on the iPad and iPhone!

We decided to re-edit our entire magazine and now you can read it perfectly on both the iPad and the iPhone. We recommed Good Reader (there is also a free LITE version available) for best experience:

Productive Magazine 4 cover on the iPad:

(click on the images for larger view)

Productive Magazine 4 Table of Contents (landscape mode)

and last but not least - Productive Magazine 4 on the iPhone

Download Productive Magazine 4 again (the iPad and iPhone friendly version)

We’re still working on Productive Magazine #1, #2 and #3 for the iPad/iPhone

Yes, the fist three issues of the magazine will be converted to the iPad very soon, please stay tuned and subscribe to our Productive Magazine Newsletter and we’ll notify you once it’s been completed.

I’m happy to announce the fourth installment of our Productive! Magazine:

This issue features an exclusive interview with Leo Babauta of “Zen Habits” fame:

“Be passionate about what you’re doing. If you’re not, it’ll be hard to motivate yourself. If you’re excited about your work, you’ll jump out of bed to do it.”

Apart from an interview with Leo, we’ve got great articles like:

• How to delegate if you don’t have a staff? by Michael Hyatt
• How to be productive and balanced when working from home by Stephanie Dickison
• Poutsourcing by Mike Vardy
• Reflections on publishing sensation - Four-hour Workweek book review by Art Carden
• 7 Irrational thoughts that disrupt your life by Steven Aitchison
• Zen to Done - 14-30 days to a habit by yours truly
• and more!

Here’s my short 4-minute promo video of the new magazine:

Make sure to download your copy of the magazine - it’s a 1.9 MB completely FREE PDF file jam packed with lots of productivity tips and tricks that surely will help you get more done and live a happier life:

Download Productive Magazine #4

Make sure let me know what you think and pass it on to your friends! Thanks!

As I explained in my last post, there were reasons for a substential delay of the Productive Magazine 4 but now we’re finishing it and getting ready for publication next week, here’s the preview of the cover:

Till the next week, make sure to subscribe to our Newsletter and spread the word!

Yes, now it’s real and Productive Magazine will be released in March (this year so the waiting is almost over. Here are some quotes from my “editor note” in the magazine. We’re now finishing the editing and compiling the magazine. Almost there, here you go:

Why the delay…

The delay has been caused mainly by lots of stuff going on in my private life, ie. my responsibilities as a father and our move to a new apartment. Because of these life-changing factors, the time I had left to work has been used to focus on my company, my web app - Nozbeand the new web app that we are going to release this year.

What’s the theme…

Since in my company we don’t have real physical office space (everyone works from home, including yours truly), there’s always a challenge of balance between work and private life. The two boundaries blend and very often it’s hard to draw the lines between the two.

Why home-office…

The main rationale behind working from home is not a way to save money. It is mostly a lifestyle choice and I love it. I have fallen in love with the concept when I was in college writing my final thesis on Teleworking (Telecommuting). This is why the theme of this issue of Productive! Magazine is working from home and we have great experts to help me tell more about the subject.

We’ve got some real experts on board…

First off, we’ve got the ueber-blogger Leo Babauta who writes his most popular blog on the Internet, Zen Habits directly from his home office on the beautiful island of Guam or from San Francisco (OK, not yet, but he is moving there this year!). We also have Stephanie Dickinson, one of the most famous home-office worker on the planet, author of “The 30-second commute”.

And regular contributors…

To cover the theme of productivity of self-employed home-worker, we’ve got Art Carden’s review of the 2-year-long New York Times bestseller “Four hour workweek”, Michael Hyatt, my personal role model, will tell you how to delegate even when you don’t have anyone working for you. Similarly, Mike Vardy, our laughter guru, will tell you how to outsource… in a very humorous way and Steven Aitchison will tell you how to make irrational thoughts go away.

I will also tune in with my contributions. You should sign up for our newsletter and subscribe to our blog here and watch out for Productive Magazine #4 in March!

We’re very sorry for the delay - for several reasons we had to postpone Productive Magazine #4 but at this moment we’re working on the new issue and we should be announcing it within next 2 weeks.

What to expect in Productive Magazine #4?

First of all, an exclusive interview with Leo Babauta, the guy behind one of the top Internet blogs - Zen Habits (now also Mnmlist and Write to Done)

Some quotes from the interview:

I don’t really plan too far ahead — when I do that, the plans tend to fall apart. I prefer to just focus on what I’m doing right now and see what opportunities come up, going with the flow as it were.

I combined some of the best concepts of GTD with principles from Stephen Covey as well as my own philosophy of simplifying and forming new habits.

So watch out for the interview and the whole Productive Magazine #4 coming to a PDF reader near you in early December

When we launched the magazine less than a week ago I wasn’t sure how the reception would be - after all most of the productive people are on vacations right now re-charging batteries before September and Christmas season… apparently not - our magazine has been already downloaded 6 thousand times and the counter is ticking….

If you haven’t grabbed your issue of this great free PDF packed with fantastic articles by top productivity bloggers on the net, get your copy now and let others know by twitter and email!

Did you like the magazine? What do you think about it? Let me know in the comments below!

This time we kept our word and thanks to the common work of the entire Productive Magazine Team we’ve manage to release this new issue of the magazine this Saturday!

Without further ado I’d like to recommend you this summer read of the magazine with a very insightful interview I happened to have a pleasure doing with - Michael Bungay Stanier - Canadian coach of the Year 2006 and one of the most respected coaches worldwide, a “Creative questioner” how David Allen calls him.

Apart from the interview we’ve got great articles by many fantastic bloggers, so I recommend you just dive in and download this magazine right now and send it to your friends:

Free PDF (3.7 MB)

You can also print the magazine yourself or order a printed copy at Magcloud (only $7 bucks a copy!):

Watch the introduction video to the newest issue of the Productive Magazine

Please let me know what you think about the magazine! I’m looking forward to your feedback!

Also I’d appreciate tweeting about the magazine and spreading the word! Thanks!

We’ve had technical problems with this 3rd issue of the magazine but it’s coming and you’ll be able to read it this weekend eventually!

Here’s the new re-loaded cover of the magazine:

Hope you’ll still be anxiously waiting for the next issue of the magazine - thanks for your support and if you want to know exactly when the magazine launches, either follow me on Twitter or sign up for our Productive! Magazine email list.