Creating a good structure when your tasks are familiar and routine is one thing, but how do you ...
A common trap some of my clients fall into when they set up their to-do list in a new app is ...
It has long been established that multitasking is bad for us in several ways, particularly ...
Some of our tasks require us to have a lot of interaction with others through meetings, email exchanges, chat conversations, and phone calls. For other tasks, we need ...
Do you get invited to meetings you don’t want to prioritize but still have to attend?
This week’s episode of Done! is about a new Outlook feature that ...
Do you ever choose to do short tasks that "drop in" instead of getting on with the more extensive and actually more important ...
If you receive a lot of emails, you may find that the inbox and everything it contains feels more or less like a jumble you have to trudge through every day ...
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 ...
I have often used the verb “process" to describe how I (and I am sure you as well) deal with what comes in via emails and other messaging channels in a systematic way ...
Have you noticed that for some reason, it is easier to say yes to doing things you are not really sure you want to do if they happen a while from now as opposed to if they were to occur soon? ...
A lot of things need to click when choosing the right app to create your structure in. It needs to have ...
A while ago, I addressed the issue of remembering to read, respond to, or in some other way acknowledge messages you ...
In spite of all our best efforts to keep our workload on a reasonable level, we occasionally become ...
“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 ...
Even if we work digitally most of the time we sometimes need to print things. It can be something that needs to be ...
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 ...
Do you allow emails to remain in the inbox until you have done everything you needed to do as a consequence of receiving it? If you do, this means ...
