If you have too much to do, you have to choose not to do something. But, many of my clients who are managers and who have too much to do have a hard time not prioritizing the things the people they manage ask them to do.
But, the same goes for people as for ...
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.
What do you do - and could you do - when ...
Even if we work digitally most of the time we sometimes need to print things. It can be something that needs to be signed, something we need to bring, something you need to complement your hand-drawn sketches with, or something else.
But, we might not ...
One aspect of structure that especially amuses me at the moment are the details in ...
Surely you have at some point gotten the recommendation to ”eat the biggest frog first” when it comes to how to structure and plan ...
Is it possibly so that you are responsible for completing a recurring task which you tend to repeatedly postpone until last second and finish just before you run out of time? If so, then you will benefit from reading this tip.
A to-do-list which is easy to use is worth its weight in gold when we want to keep track of all the things we have to do and what we promised others we would do. But not all our commitments are as brief as to-do-tasks ...
Sure, we can ensure that we have a refined and well-functioning structure. By doing so we will do what needs to get done smoother, we will have more time for what really matters and if we should get stuck with something, we know what to do to get moving again. But, we are also often depending on ...
Don’t all this structuring just amount to more work? Do we really need a to-do-list? Is it really worth ...
Saying no to a colleague who asks for our help can be very difficult for many of us. It is easy to judge yourself and think that ...
I want to make things as easy for myself as I possibly can, all the time. Simplifying is definitely ...
Do you keep creating new ways of structuring all the time? Do you ...
Have you ever wanted or desired something so bad that it became a burden? It can be ...
A new year has just begun. Even if we live in a ...
The open and/or activity-based office spaces seem to be increasing in number.
Many who are used to ...
Erika e-mailed me and gave me a tip about an episode of ...
According to the Russian psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik in the 1920s, loose ends make us ...
Microsoft To-Do has it. So does Trello. And Things. And Todoist as well ...
