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!

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!

Our “Productive!” family keeps on growing. As we’re preparing the launch of the all-new issue of the Productive Magazine (I’ll announce the launch date this week!) I decided to compile my series of “2-minute productivity” shows into a separate blog called “Productive Show”.

My goal is to publish a new 2-minute video about productivity every week. At this moment I just put all the archive videos I had on the topic and we’ll go from there.

We’ll see how it goes, but I’ll definitely give it a try. In the meantime I encourage you to check out our sister-site and let me know how you like the 2-minute videos with some really cool Productivity Tips and Tricks.

How to manage flood of email messages? How to quickly read magazines? How to process inbox? It’s all in there, have a look and let me know in the comments:

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

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!

As promised, tomorrow we’re launching the long-awaited second issue of your favorite magazine, and here’s the screenshot of the table of contents:

Get ready for 24 pages packed with great articles that’ll help you boost your productivity and motivate yourself to get going, hope you’ll enjoy this issue as much as we have preparing it!

Please make sure to follow me on twitter or sign up for our newsletter or just subscribe to our blog. Thanks for spreading the word!

P.S. Of course as before, Productive Magazine is a completely free PDF download

OK, we’re finally finishing the second issue of the Productive! magazine - the last corrections and we’re good to go, should be out next week, before the end of April. Here’s the cover design to get you excited:

To be notified about the new issue, make sure you sign up for our Announcement List Newsletter.

Highlights of the Second issue of the Productive! Magazine:

• Exclusive Interview with Guy Kawasaki
• Great articles about Motivation, Resolutions, Practical Lifehacks, etc.

I know the #2 issue is long overdue, but I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait!

As always, the magazine is proudly being sponsored by Nozbe - Simply Get Things Done!

I came back from the GTD Summit in San Francisco and the Productive Magazine #2 is not ready yet due to some technical problems we’ve been experiencing… and I’m really sorry for that.

As I hate being late or overdue with things and we’re long overdue with #2, I decided to do some cleaning and design the Productive Magazine Editorial Processes over again and make sure we can deliver each issue of the magazine on a regular basis.

Shorter but regular (monthly as the ultimate goal)

I’ve heard voices over at the Summit that they’d rather read a shorter magazine but on a regular basis than a longer one every few months. I definitely share this opinion and let me tell you, I think we’ll be on the right track with PM #3. The next issue will be due sometime in May and hopefully #4 and next ones will be as regular as ever and issued every month.

Productive Magazine Team is growing!

One the side note - our Productive Magazine Team is growing - apart from Me and my assistant Delfina, Lori Anderson and Dustin Wax (of Lifehack.org fame) have volunteered to participate and let me prepare each issue for you. If you also would like to volunteer and help me out, make sure to contact me.

How did I design the processes for the Productive Magazine #3 and beyond?

While I can’t reveal all the details yet (I’ll have to test them and really see what works and what doesn’t) I’ll be happy to let you know in the future posts about the process, for now just have a look at the Mind Map I did in the Freemind app on my Mac:

Please let me know in the comments, what you liked, didn’t like and would love to see in the future issues of the Productive Magazine and which format would be the best for you?

P.S. The issue #2 is almost finished and should be out any day now. Again, sorry for the delay!