In this post Productivity Bits . Com (well, that’s me) looks around the blogosphere to gather the articles related to productivity and self-development that I find useful to the knowledge workers. Add these links to your essential reading when you have time; and I guarantee that they will add value to your quest for productivity.

Getting Organized – Goodbye Paper? – Struggling to manage your notes? Are you wasting some precious time on “organizing” rather than spending those on “getting things done”? This “Getting Organized” article by Mike Walsh ( Blog | @Mike_Walsh) is a cool series about managing notes and other productivity organization tips. The series attempts to answer the question “I am wasting time writing notes I can’t find or use later, what should I do?”

5 Steps To Begin Learning GTD – A Guaranteed Way To Save Hours From Your Workday – I am an adherent to the Getting Things Done philosophy by David Allen. In fact this blog, Productivity Bits . Com, is built upon the tenets of Getting Things Done. This “5 Steps” article by Arif (Blog) teaches the uninitiate how to get started with GTD.

Manage Your Life One Domain At A Time – We are after self-development and productivity improvement, which is okay. The effort is really overwhelming because, at the same, we also try to manage some other stuff. What makes it complicated and quite “unmanageable” is trying to manage them all at once. “Manage Your Life One Domain At A Time” by Joe Wilner (Blog) looks into the 5 essential domains of managing life. The divide-and-conquer approach to managing life is really effective and Joe can show you how.

Improve Your Focus – Multi-Tasking destroys focus. Well, that is just one of the many claims in this post. The key to finding the focal point is to search and destroy the sources of your distractions. There are various distractions as we go about our “office lives”. Identify these distractions and manage them before they gain control over you.

The Elements Of Change – The process of productivity is a process of change. “Change” is a big word. It only becomes easy if you break it down into chunks. This articles does that. “The Elements Of Change” by Leo Babauta (Blog) identifies the 6 Elements Of Change that are “useful in considering how to make potential changes in your life“.

There you go. Five solid Productivity and Self-Development nuggets for your reading pleasure. I found them very rich in lessons and I think that we can apply them to our routines. I hope you read them and digest the essentials. I guarantee that these articles will add value to your productivity effort. Do you have links to other useful articles like the ones listed above? Please share them in your comments now!