My Favorite Productivity Tools

1. _________________Your Website_________________ Weebly I’m a big fan of Weebly. I built ALifeInFull.org with their tools. Weebly’s drag and drop website builder makes it easy to create a powerful, professional website without any technical skills. Over 30 million entrepreneurs and small businesses have already used Weebly to build their online presence with a website, blog or store. Content elements (like text, photos, maps, and videos) are added to your website by simply dragging and dropping them into place. Text is edited just like in a word processor. Building your website is done in real- time, right from your web browser. There's absolutely nothing to install and no upgrades to worry about. Learn more at: http://www.weebly.com/features

2. Google Search Console Google Search Console is a free web-based service provided by Google that helps you monitor and maintain your site's presence in Google Search results. Search Console helps you better understand how Google views your site so you can optimize its performance in search results. Learn more at: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en Google Analytics Google Analytics is a “freemium” web analytics service by Google that tracks and reports website traffic and statistics. Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics service on the Internet, and easily integrates with most web services and blogging platforms, such as WordPress. Google Analytics helps you to understand your customer's journey and measure your marketing effectiveness with more precision. Learn more at: https://www.google.com/analytics _________________Social Media__________________ HootSuite HootSuite is a “freemium” Social Media Management System that helps you to keep track of and manage your many social network accounts, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram. It lets you schedule bulk posts (such as Facebook Posts and Tweets), allows you to monitor keywords relevant to your business, and also lets you monitor multiple social streams simultaneously. Learn more at: http://tinyurl.com/HootSuiteTools

3. PostPlanner Post Planner is a “freemium” publishing and curation app that makes it easy for anyone to find and share amazing content on Facebook. It lets you post at automated, pre-selected times and dates, crowd source content from other post planner users, and view simple analytics to measure the effectiveness of your posts. Learn more at: http://tinyurl.com/PostPlannerTools Buffer Buffer is a “freemium” Social Media posting tool that allows you to batch multiple posts & then schedule them to publish to your various Social Media profiles, at the time and date that you schedule! Buffer spreads your posts throughout the day or week so that you don't have to be at a computer all the time in order to have an active social media presence. Last but not least, Buffer also has a content curation feature that suggests relevant information for you to share with your followers. Learn more at: https://buffer.com _________________Filing and Writing__________________ Dropbox Dropbox is a “freemium” cloud storage provider that keeps your files safe, synced, and easy to share with friends, family and clients. Dropbox lets you store photos, docs, videos, and files to a “cloud” server on the Internet. Your files are then available from any internet connected computer, tablet, smartphone and the Dropbox website in the world. The Free version of Dropbox offers up to 2 GB free storage. Learn more at: https://www.dropbox.com

4. Google Drive Google Drive is Google’s “freemium” cloud storage service that allows you to store your documents, photos, music, videos, and more. From Drive, you can also use Google “Cloud Office” suite - Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms. You get 15 GB of free storage that’s shared across your Gmail, Drive and Google Photos accounts. Learn more at: https://www.google.com/drive Evernote Evernote is a “freemium” document and file storage app for your desktop, tablet and smartphone. Lets you save notes, links, receipts, articles, business cards, to do lists, etc. Some people (like Tim Ferriss) use it to write entire books! Learn more at: https://www.evernote.com Bookalyzer (it’s on the tool bar: http://tinyurl.com/Bookalyzer) is another free tool that allows you to run an analysis of your digitally published books (that is, any with an ASIN number). You type in your book’s ASIN (or copy and paste it from Amazon), then click “Bookalyze It!” It will then break down your book for you from where its ranking to “also-bought” (and why they are important) it gives you all of your book’s info in one easy location. In addition, it gives you recommendations on how you can increase your books score to sell even more books. The folks that created Bookalyzer, the Author Marketing Club, also offer a free download of their “How to Sell More Books with Awesome Amazon Descriptions” (http://tinyurl.com/AmazonBookDe scriptions) ironically, a goofy title, but it does offer some helpful tips.

5. Grammarly (http://tinyurl.com/GramerlyProofer ) provides another set of eyes to help perfect your writing. Grammarly’s patent-pending grammar checking technology reviews and improves your text, correcting grammar, spelling, word choice and style mistakes with unmatched accuracy. Plagiarism Detection & Citations (http://tinyurl.com/GrammarlyPlagiarismProofer) Grammarly finds unoriginal text before it gets you into trouble by checking for plagiarism against a database of over 8 billion web pages. Grammarly not only brings borrowed texts to light but also suggests citations. _________________Fitness & Nutrition__________________ Onnit It’s difficult to be at your peak productivity without proper nutrition and exercise. The brain has massive fuel demands. Our muscles require a combination of strength, endurance and dexterity to function at their best. Our lifestyles require alert attention, diligence, and supreme stress management. Onnit is there to provide the tools and inspiration to help our fellow humans thrive in this ever-evolving world. Learn more by copying and pasting: https://www.onnit.com/?a_aid=DrChrisStout

6. _________________Meaningful Productivity__________________ Meaningful Productivity: A 12 Month Guide and Tools to Help You Do More That Matters There are lots of planners, systems, seminars, and books to help achieve goals, get organized, and plan. But Meaningful Productivity is the first comprehensive approach for one’s life – not just work or home. It is based on an integrative philosophy of living that has evolved and been acid-tested in the real world by its originator. It is designed to be specifically tailored to your needs, goals, and ambitions. Meaningful Productivity is designed to be simple and unencumbered. It is basically a hybrid of a scheduling system/planner with a to-do list. Its simplicity is its power. My focus is on life significance. This significance is defined via achievement with satisfaction. Significance wins out over success. Meaning and individualized importance are drivers. Sure, sometimes these result in outward reward of status, celebrity, or wealth, but these are side-effects, not ends. Learn more at: http://tinyurl.com/MeaningfulProductivity I hope you find these of use, and let me know what tools you recommend as well! Cheers, Chris << Fine Print >> PLEASE BE IN TOUCH IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR WOULD LIKE TO LEARN MORE: AND ALIFEINFULL.ORG AND DRCHRISSTOUT.COM