Do you ever choose to do short tasks that "drop in" instead of getting on with the more extensive and actually more important ...
Is there any point in having a plan when new things keep happening all the time?
That’s a fair question.
One participant I met had a ...
How do you create a good folder structure? Many people ask themselves that - well actually, many people ask me. My answer is that ...
One risk of having as many meetings as lots of people testify to having right now is that you ...
The annual wheel is round. The to-do list is straight. How will you make them fit together?
In this week’s Done! No. 652, you will see how you can bring your annual wheel into ...
Are you spending time on the right things? Are you spending the right amount of time on the right things? Or, are you wasting ...
A lot of things need to click when choosing the right app to create your structure in. It needs to have ...
Sometimes there are just too many meetings. Sure, meetings are a necessary and practical way to ...
In spite of all our best efforts to keep our workload on a reasonable level, we occasionally become ...
Naming files and documents in a good way is quite an art. Perhaps you have heard me compare naming documents to magnetic poetry, where you ...
“When did we decide that?”, one of your colleagues from the highly prioritized project asks in the middle of the intense workshop you are having. “I was working on ...
“Storing” and “doing” are not the same thing. Things that need to be done have a definite ending - when you have done them. Once you have done whatever it is, you can ...
Sometimes there is just not enough time. You have a deadline fast approaching, but what you need to do takes longer than you had anticipated - much longer. You ...
One of the participants in my Swedish online course called “Keep track of everything you have to do with Microsoft To-Do” asked me if he ...
We all end up in situations at work when we have to say no. If it feels uncomfortable to say no to your colleagues, you will ...
Creating a good structure is immensely helpful - if you can remember it, that is. A common trap many fall into is ...
I had just spoken enthusiastically about the immense value of choosing only one tool to keep your entire to-do list in at the full-day course when one of the participants ...
When I worked as a quality manager many years ago I was often reminded of that what we needed ...
Amongst many other useful tips in his book "Deep Work", Cal Newport shares what he calls his “shutdown ritual”, which is a method intended to ...
It is so tiring in the long run to always have to hurry, stress, and worry towards the end of a task or project. Having good ...
