productivity Archives - Amber R Field

May 12, 2026May 10, 2026Habits, Writing

There Is No Right Way to Be Brilliant: A Review of Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

Several clocks on the cover of Mason Currey's book "Daily Rituals"

I’m reading Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey, and I keep having the same thought over and over again, “Well, if they can do it that way, then anyone can”. The book profiles 161 creative minds from novelists, scientists, and painters, to philosophers, composers, and poets, documenting their daily working routines. And after one hundred pages of profiles, the takeaway I’m getting is that you can be brilliant in your own way, on your own schedule, with your own strange routines.

March 31, 2026March 23, 2026Intentional Living

What If Your Goals Were Experiments Instead?

Anne-Laure Le Cunff, a neuroscientist, former Google executive, and founder of the Ness Labs newsletter has a new book, Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World, and her ideas around ditching goals and focusing on experiments is really interesting. Could you do something like this in your life?

March 17, 2026March 14, 2026Habits

The Quiet Power of Showing Up Every Day

I’ve recently realized that all of the things I’ve found most worth doing, I’ve accomplished by showing up every, single day. My daily habits have led me to write a book, become fluent in new languages, and retire at 41. I blink and suddenly I hit huge life goals. You have to love the power of the daily habit.

February 24, 2026February 23, 2026Intentional Living, Making Time

Ruthless Prioritization: Doing Less to Accomplish More

If you have five things on your to do list today, how do you ensure you are as productive as possible? The answer, which is my best suggestion for living the life you want is: delete four of them. That’s not the punchline to a joke, it’s a very effective strategy for getting more of your most important things done and I think of it as ruthless prioritization.

January 6, 2026January 5, 2026Book Excerpts

Dirty Your Boots: Why Resolutions Fail and Systems Win

It’s the season of resolutions and I don’t know about you, but I am completely over them as a means to accomplish life goals. So, for those of you who have amazing goals this year, but no actual plan or system yet to achieve them, I’d like to share the following first draft from my new book. It’s the most basic way that I know to create a plan that will help you actually accomplish your goals.