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 ...
Some things are easy to procrastinate. It is both understandable and there can definitely be good reason for doing so. But, here are four things you really should ...
Do you have days when it feels as if you have too much around you, going on in general as well as on your desk, in a very palpable way? Do you have so much physically in front of you as well as ahead of you that you tremble at the thought of getting started with something because there is just so much and it is so messy? Then it is time to ...
Does the fact that you frequently do duties which you have performed before, only in a different month, for a different project or for a different customer, sound familiar? It may involve extracting ...
Despite of your persistent structural efforts, you may still sometimes discover that you have too much of something and have to clean up. Perhaps a pile of paper (or several piles) has accumulated and surely you have ...
When you notice that something has been neglected, when you have been unsuccessful in completing a task as planned, when piles have formed on your desk again, even though you did not want them to, when you are behind schedule again in spite of that you worked yourself up to date last Sunday, I have a suggestion on ...
You know what it is like when you really need to finish something immediately. You want to focus entirely at the task, but just then a colleague pops his head through the door and asks you to “check something”, or the phone rings and it ...
Do you often get new ideas? Have you experienced coming to think of something smart which has to do with a particular task when doing something entirely different? Do you want to get things done as smoothly as possible?
That makes us two.
This last week has been ...
To me, structure is to achieve what you want as easily as possible; to do what you want to get done with the least amount of effort.
Sometimes in my work I enter ”development-mode”.
This can be when ...
The things we need to do are not only put on the to-do-list on our own initiative. On the contrary, we are often asked to do something by others.
It might be our boss who ...
You’ve tried it all. You have structured and systematized your workday so that you are aware of all things you need to do, you know where you have your material and you have all your various ongoing projects under control.
You know what your ...
Do you get easily distracted by all the papers on your desk when you really need to focus on a particularly difficult, complicated or urgent task?
Do these papers and piles concern ...
When I wrote about the fact that a massive clean up once in a while isn’t enough to keep our workspaces cleared from distracting clutter, in the Swedish edition of our weekly newsletter Done! before Christmas, Gun-Britt Karlsson got in touch with me.
With regards to keeping the desk clean, she wrote ...
Does your agenda have a tendency to quickly fill up with meetings?
Do you tend to schedule too many meetings during the day and perhaps even have colleagues who “help you out” by calling you to meetings when they know you are not due somewhere else?
Does this result in that ...
I am sure it happens to you, just as it does to everyone, that problems show up in your work as well?
It might be: ...
Isn’t it nice when everything falls into place, when you go from clarity to clarity, when your job runs smoothly and you really feel you’re getting something done???
Well, every now and then, everything stalls.?? You know what it can be like: ...
You spend quite a substantial amount of hours of your life working every week. If everything you do is about the details here and now, you’ll find that everything just keeps on spinning.
??You might have become quite good at ...
When you decide to improve your personal structure in some way, by starting to work with new tools, by from now on planning your time differently or even simply stop doing something you have done before, it is easy to slip back into old habits, into a rut.
??Your new approach works brilliantly for a while, but ...
Last Tuesday, it was time for me to give my first Pecha Kucha-talk.
It was incredibly fun and an experience that I truly can recommend each and everyone.
If you have ...
You know how it is. You’ve got a task you really need to get done right now, but you keep getting distracted by other things.??
Maybe you have writer’s block or think the task is so boring that you find it hard to work focused with it. You check your e-mail, flip though Facebook, call someone just for fun, you go and get another cup of coffee and happen to hang around the coffee machine for a while and small talk, read an online newspaper, Google something you’ve come to think about, and so on.??
You do anything except what you actually know is the right thing to do right now.??
Now you are going to learn ...
