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!

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!

I’d like to apologize, although I thought we had the magazine ready, there occurred several technical difficulties on the editing side and I simply decided we have to wait a few more days for the Productive Magazine to launch.

We had to postpone the launch of the issue #3 till Saturday, August 8.

I’m really sorry, please accept my deepest apologies, I know you’ve been waiting for this one, but believe me we had to do it to make sure issue #3 gets it right.

Please follow me on Twitter as I’ll be posting my updates about the magazine there.

I was too optimistic about this issue but it’ll be ready by Saturday for sure.

As promised, tomorrow we’ll be launching the third issue of the Productive Magazine and since the magazine has been already compiled (it’s undergoing the last revision though), I’ve decided to post a small video trailer on our sister site “Productive! Show”, click on the photo to jump and watch the video:

The newest issue of the magazine will be available tomorrow and as always it’ll be a completely free PDF download, so make sure to send this to your friends and colleagues!

We can notify you per email about newest issue, just subscribe to our Productive! Newsletter mailing list and we’ll email you when it’s available.

So far so good, we’re finishing up the Productive Magazine Issue #3 and it is going to be a great one.

For this issue I’ve been interviewing Michael Bungay-Stanier (@boxofcrayons), native Australian who lives in Canada and has been awarded there “coach of the year 2006″ and by David Allen is considered one of the best thinkers on productivity. Among the GTD crowd he’s very well known for the “creative questioning” podcast with David Allen.

Here’s the early scoop of the cover design for the issue #3:

Some excerpts from the interview:

You know how there’s some work you do that’s meaningful and important and makes a difference? And then there’s the rest of the stuff you do and that somehow fills up your days? Great Work is the first type. And I want you to do more of that.

Think of your goal not as saying No – but as “saying Yes more slowly.” Part of what trips us up is how our default is set to saying Yes and saying Yes quickly. If you can just slow things down a little - and the best way to do this is to get curious and ask questions about what’s being asked of you - then you’ll end up not committing yourself to so much.

I truly believe that you can’t do Great Work by yourself. If you’re smart, you build up a team - people who can provide technical, intellectual and emotional support.

Metrics are tricky - they can turn into an end in themselves, rather than a means to an end. At least, that’s the excuse I make for me not measuring very much.

Mark your days in the calendar, please tweet about the magazine and follow me on Twitter…

Tuesday, August 4th, Productive Magazine is strikes back again!

After almost two months of not-posting let me tell you we’re not asleep over here but busy preparing the next issue of the Productive Magazine.

• Who will be featured on the cover?
• Whose articles will be published?
• How will the magazine look like?
• When will the magazine #3 be published?

You’ll get answers to all of these questions in the coming days, so make sure to Subscribe to our Newsletter or to our RSS feed, or follow me on Twitter or plain simply bookmark this web site…. or do all of this to be on the safe side and receive info about the Productive Magazine issue #3.

One thing is sure - the magazine will be published this month and will stay as always a free PDF download, so make sure to spread the word about it!

Stay tuned!

- Michael (Editor-in-Chief

When I published the first issue of the Productive Magazine, many people asked about a print version. I went with Lulu and published a print version there. However, it turned out to be quite expensive.

Enter Magcloud - the new service of publishing print magazines

I signed up for Magcloud (as per suggestion of several of my readers) and posted both issues of the magazine there and they both turned out to be pretty affordable (and full color at that!), just have a look:

Productive Magazine Issue #2 is only $7 bucks!

So at a cost of a beer you can get a nicely color-printed version of your favorite magazine.

Productive Magazine Issue #1 is only $9 bucks!

This one is two bucks more expensive than issue #2 because it’s bigger in size. Still, three cups of coffee and it’s yours to have.

My question to you my dear readers - would you buy a printed version of the Productive Magazine? Does it even make sense for me to set it up for you? Do you print the magazine by yourself?

It’s been crazy 24 hours for the Productive Magazine! Just in the first 24 hours more than 4,000 people have downloaded our magazine and the response has been great so far, looking forward to more blog posts and tweets. Hope you can help us spread the word even more!

When I launched #2 of the magazine, I thought it’d be cool to beat the issue #1 2x times and reach a total of 60K downloads… and although we’re still far from the goal, we’ve beaten the first 24 hours of the first issue 4 times, as the first issue was downloaded “only” 1K times during its first launch day

Please help us spread the word to achieve our goal of 60K downloads! Thanks!

And if you didn’t get your copy of the magazine, download it now it’s only 2.5 MB and it’s free!

Here are the handful of blogs that helped so far:

• Stepcase Lifehack
• Nozbe blog
• Did I Get Things Done
• Qlubb
• Antyweb
• DuTudu
• My personal blog
• and many many Twitter users….

I invite you to follow me on twitter, blog and tweet about the magazine and help us spread the word! After all we’re doing the magazine for your, for free and we’re hoping you’ll find it useful. Thanks!

It’s been long in the making, but today we’re officially giving you the opportunity to read the second issue of our Productive Magazine and we’ve got great things in this one:

• Exclusive interview with Guy Kawasaki - bestselling author, serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and ex-Apple fellow

Download your PDF version of Productive Magazine!

In the magazine you’ll also find 10 Great articles from top productivity bloggers about:

• New Year’s Resolutions
• The art of s aying No
• How to optimize your life and claim a couple of hours a week back
• Setting SMART goals
• Mind- mapping
• Working in groups
• … and more!

We’ve got great authors like Leo Babauta, Dustin Wax, Michael Hyatt, James Mallinson, Kris Rowlands, Andrew Mason, Michael Deutch, Andrew Yang and yours truly…

Here’s the scoop on the Table of Contents:

So what’s your next action?

Download your issue of the Productive! Magazine at no cost (only 2.5 MB)

The magazine is a total of 24 pages, 1 exclusive interview, 10 articles and most of all, it’s completely free! Feel free to share with your friends and family!

What do you think about this issue? Love it? Hate it? Let me know in the comments!

Your Editor,

- Michael Sliwinski
Follow me on Twitter: MichaelNozbe

P.S. The last issue of Productive Magazine hit more than 30K downloads - this time we’re aiming at 60K! Help us spread the word!