There are times when you feel overwhelmingly reluctant to do what you know you will want to have done sometime soon. You have a huge pile of unprocessed documents in the inbox that you really should deal with, but ...
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 ...
I have never encountered anyone who complains over receiving too few e-mails or someone who was unhappy due to e-mails being too short or too concrete.
And very few organizations or companies tell me the communication occurring through CC:-ing is at a reasonable level.
And yet we still choose e-mails before ...
Some things are best done in cooperation with others. That is why we need to have meetings. In order to meet, we need to find an appropriate time when everyone is available.
But ...
A question I frequently get when I am out lecturing is how often you should go through your e-mail. My guess is that what makes this such a common question is that ...
There are several pitfalls to fall into when it comes to structure. One of the ones I encounter most frequently when helping my clients is ...
Have you experienced returning to the office after a few weeks holiday only to find that the e-mail inbox is virtually overflowing with hundreds of unread e-mails?
“Welcome back!”
Wouldn’t you agree that this does not exactly give you the best feeling upon your return? ...
When so much of our daily work-related communication today is conducted by e-mail, this central tool can, if correctly used, be the backbone to good personal structure or, if not utilized optimally, be fatal to ...
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 ...
Today, I’m back in Gothenburg after two days in Therese Albrechtson’s and Gustaf Oscarsons’s enjoyable company. I had the pleasure of being responsible for the first of nine keys in Academy of Excellence, the training program for owners of rapidly growing companies that Therese and Gustaf have started. It was a ...
When was the last time you had an empty e-mail inbox? Do you remember how it felt???
Many of us have a lot of e-mails in our inboxes and believe it or not, but ...
Many of us experience chaos from time to time in our everyday life when we are flooded by a constant stream of proposals, information and messages, more or less unchecked, through too many different channels. It’s as if we are exposed to a bunch of pipelines which deliver contributions to our everyday planning.
??If we’re not to drown in piles of paper, ...
I just hung up after a follow up over the phone with a customer of mine that is halfway through my program “Individual sessions in personal productivity”.
He has learned to ...
Do you all too often experience that you are bothered or disturbed by your colleagues? Do you feel that you can’t go through the hallway without getting called in to someone’s office when you have the least time for it? Do you repeatedly get interrupted just when you are at a critical stage in the task you really need to focus on?
Sure, occasionally you want to tell them off for interfering, but at the same time you are after all working together to bring the business forward.
And it is hardly that ...
We are many who receive quite a lot of e-mails, perhaps even more than we can handle and are comfortable with. It is easy to feel that you are the victim of dire circumstances when it comes to the constant flow of mail into your inbox, but it is possible to be more efficient by working structured even with this.
Here are five concrete ways in which you can work more efficiently with your incoming mail.
E-mail is a means of communication that we love to hate and seem to use more and more, every day.
Many suffer from overcrowded inboxes and getting more e-mails than they can handle.
Having a smart way of dealing with incoming mail once it has arrived is one thing, but as I see it, we can also influence how efficiently we utilize e-mailing as a whole through how we compose the e-mails we send others.
Here are six tips to how you can help others help you make your e-mailing more efficient.
Last week, I conducted an open course in personal productivity in Stockholm, with participants from a wide variety of industries: from disposal of radioactive waste to gardening, via pharmaceuticals (among others).
We talked about ...
When you are experiencing more chaos in your workday than you are comfortable with and you wish to improve the structure of your day, it is fully understandable if you tremble at the mere thought of the extent of the changes needed.
Perhaps you are hesitant and are even doubtful as to whether it is even possible to change, and you might even fear that your particular situation is a hopeless case.
I am convinced that no circumstances are hopeless and I am equally convinced that you can make significant changes with small means.
Do not try to make all improvements at once, but choose to work on one aspect at a time and you will experience greater success. When the first change is done, move on to the next, etc.
Nice and easy, you will end up more structured and with more time on your hands by taking it one step at a time.
Here are three ideas on different steps to begin with.
Many people that I meet in my profession, says “I really would need that!” when they hear me say that I work with making organizations and individuals more structured in their everyday life.
Often, they seem dejected when they say that, almost like they feel that creating a good personal structure is far too hard for them.
As I see it, it is just as easy to create a great structure as it is to keep a defective structure. It is just a matter of habits and simple tools.
Here are nine common mistakes that prevents good personal structure and tips on how to avoid them.
