When we return to the office after being on a business trip for a few days we often have ...
I was working with one of my individual session-mentees the other day. We were reviewing what we had accomplished so far and ...
In my business I am currently focusing on simplifying, minimizing and getting rid of materials, tasks, and even entire parts of my business that no longer contribute to my progress as much as they used to but rather ...
When I met Johanna Ragnartz, CEO of Whitelines, last fall, and she showed me the ...
Do you want to work as undisturbed as possible? Do you want to be able to delegate tasks without having to have to give a detailed explanation on how you want it done over and over again? Then create your very own ...
One of the most common things participants from my courses decide to do by the end of our day together is to ...
Some people I meet think that they are going to improve their structure later, when they have time. Perhaps they have tried sorting out the piles, but gotten stuck after a few minutes of organizing and come to the conclusion that ...
Finding digital files and documents that either we ourselves or our colleagues have saved at some point is usually not a problem – as long as they are ...
When it is time for time off, such as last summer’s vacation, most of us want to feel and be freer our ordinary lives normally lets us. It feels good to allow for thoughts to flow freely and do whatever comes to mind. It is a true privilege to be able to let go of work and everything that our ordinary lives consist of, but unfortunately not everyone can do this effortlessly as ...
If you feel as if you have too much stuff, papers and things around you, and that you get so distracted by all the clutter as soon as you raise your eyes that you have difficulties concentrating on the task in front of you, I am sure you would like to have ...
It’s one thing to decide to rid yourself of binders and papers that you no longer need, but a whole different matter entirely to determine what is good riddance and what is not.
What if we happen to throw away something we one day might need?
Sure, you could ...
On occasion, you get an idea or two. They are amazing, marvelous and exciting ideas and sometimes even show a true stroke of brilliance. If you are in luck, they fit right in with what you need to focus your strength and energy on right now. But they can often concern matters which ...
Have you ever experienced that you have been asked or assigned to do something, but later on it turns out that you and whoever made the request had a different view of how the task or service was to be performed. And perhaps ...
Even if you establish a thoroughly thought through system for your good-to-have material (also referred to as reference-material), it will most likely evolve and grow over time. The more material you have, the more ...
How are all your digital documents and files doing?
Are they scattered about on your computer? Some on the computer desktop, some as attachments in e-mails, a substantial amount in various locations on your hard drive, and then you have all those ...
Do you get easily distracted by all the papers on your desk when you really need to focus on a particularly difficult, complicated or urgent task?
Do these papers and piles concern ...
When I wrote about the fact that a massive clean up once in a while isn’t enough to keep our workspaces cleared from distracting clutter, in the Swedish edition of our weekly newsletter Done! before Christmas, Gun-Britt Karlsson got in touch with me.
With regards to keeping the desk clean, she wrote ...
We are approaching one of the times during the year when most of us take a longer continuous break. It might as well be the summer vacation, but right now it’s the Christmas holiday.?? During these breaks, a ...
This tip is a continuation of last week’s post. In it, just as I will in this, I promote the great structural tool that the “mind-map” is, especially digital versions, that is, those made in one of the mind-map-software available for purchase or downloading free (also referred to as “open source”-software).
A mind-map is especially practical when ...
Unfortunately most of us don’t just have e-mails, phone-calls and good ideas which need to be dealt with in our daily lives, but also a continuous inflow of physical papers and material to process.
We receive mail, notes from colleagues, we have ...
