Few things are as unpleasant as sitting in a meeting highly aware of how unprepared you are and wishing you had spent at least a little time ...
When you are about to choose what task to do next, it is practical to only have to look for tasks in a single place ...
A great thing about having colleagues is that you can receive help and guidance when you need it. And, it is a joy and privilege to ...
A week ago it happened again, the thing that makes my work so enriching - someone told me about a brilliant trick! Halfway through one of my open courses in Stockholm, Annette approached me and said ...
Another vacation is fast approaching. Perhaps it still feels far off, but believe me, it will be ...
Do you also tend to forget things you have just learned? Someone shows you how to perform a task you have just been made responsible for and in that moment it is so obvious how to do it, but the first time you are about to perform it yourself ...
Most people want to use the time we spend working as efficiently as possible - partly because we then have time to do the things that will have the greatest impact and are most important in our work, and partly ...
To withdraw, close the door behind you and make sure that you are not disturbed when you need to focus on a prioritized task is only possible to do wholeheartedly when ...
Do you have tasks that you tend to postpone more than others?
This week’s episode of Done! - No. 586 - is about a trick that ...
Sometimes a large task takes longer than we had anticipated. We thought we would have more than enough time to finish before Friday and even time to do other tasks, but something comes up and ...
Sometimes we simply have too much to deal with. We are already doing what we perceive as our very best and still we barely ...
When it comes to reminders, push-notifications and notifiers of other sorts, I always recommend adhering to the rule-of-thumb that ...
You know what it’s like. You have a task you want to finish but you are dependent on ...
We cannot possibly do absolutely everything ourselves, and we often need a hand from others to get things done. Perhaps we have ...
How is it possible to learn new things when you are overburdened with work? Physicist Richard Feynman had an interesting method worth sharing.
There are many differing opinions on how close to deadlines we ought to complete tasks. Some prefer ...
When questions, problems, ideas, suggestions, errors, and the like arise, they need to be dealt with by the right person. But ...
The Urgent/Important-matrix is probably the structural tool that most people are familiar with. Chances are that you have ...
Performing a recurring task at frequent intervals gives us a golden opportunity to become even more efficient. Every time we ...
There are offers we wish to decline, things we do not want to do, tasks we no longer want to be responsible for doing. But to many it is hard to say no ...
