Do you have more than one sourdough? That is, more than one thing which you keep thinking that you will do (or which you should have done by now), but which you simply cannot seem to get started on. The term is derived from ...
The amount of e-mails you receive in a day can sometimes be ...
You know how it is. You are just about to finish that particularly important task and just then the IT-system shuts down. Just then ...
I am guessing that you by now have been back at work for one or a couple of weeks after being away for your Christmas holiday. What was it like to ...
If you have attended one of my lectures or if you simply are equally fond of David Allen’s Getting Things Done-method as I am, you will be familiar with the term “context” with respect to to-do-lists. It is about ...
Sometimes our newly established and super-structured working methods run smooth like clockwork. But occasionally everything collapses and ...
As we reach a certain level of structure in our work and we use a to-do-list in some form in order to remember what we have to do and to easily obtain an overview of all the tasks, there is a trap we need to beware of ...
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 ...
When you are in the process of improving you structure at work, it is highly probable that you will need to change a habit or two as well, that is, how you deal with certain situations in your everyday life. It might be ...
Do you have a to-do-list full of tasks you never work with? Did you once create a well-structured, complete list of all the things you need to do in accordance with how an excellent to-do-list should be constructed, but it has now ...
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 ...
Have you ever postponed doing something since you feared that it would be unpleasant, that you would be criticized or that something negative would happen? You actually want to do it (or rather want to have it done), but ...
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 ...
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 ...
