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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 ...

Chat-based collaboration platforms like Teams and Slack are increasingly replacing internal emailing in many ...

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 ...

When questions, problems, ideas, suggestions, errors, and the like arise, they need to be dealt with by the right person. But who to ask ...

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 ...

Did you recently try to improve your structure but failed? Don’t despair.

In this week’s episode of Done! you will get support in ...

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 ...

Do you want to be present for the people you lead, but find your time consumed the moment you make yourself available?

Let me share how you can achieve a better balance between  ...

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  ...

In order to make yourself wholeheartedly “uninterruptible” when you need to focus, you need to ...

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 ...

Are you spending time on the right things? Are you spending the right amount of time on the right things? Or, are you wasting ...

Since I tend to “just keep going” and find it harder to remember to pause and celebrate wins, I’m constantly on the lookout for ...

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? ...

How can you come up with alternative solutions to a task when you’re stuck and time is running out?

Today’s edition of Done! is about a very interesting study that ...

Have you experienced this? You are working on a task that requires your concentration. As part of the task, you need to..