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:

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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.

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!

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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.

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.

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.