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 ...
How we structure our lives and workdays is a constant process that requires continuous refinement. If you ever were to ...
Once in a while the implications of our structural inefficiencies and traps are particularly apparent. The workday feels overwhelming, we run from one ...
Annette had multiple managers that gave her tasks to perform. They all wanted her to ...
There are some things that we believe we need to do but which seldom get urgent enough for us to ...
Let’s say you know something a colleague does not, and you want to teach the colleague how it is done. It does not have to be some complicated expert knowledge, but can ...
One of the reasons why we sometimes have such an overwhelming amount of things to do, is that we are doing ...
