You have the option of marking e-mails with flags in Outlook, Mail (OS X) and Lotus Notes, and with stars in Gmail. Many people I meet use this function for e-mails which contain something they need to do something with. They thereby create ...
When did you last snooze a reminder? Was it this morning or just a few minutes ago? Or, do you not even use the reminder-function? A client asked me the other day about how to ...
Done, done, done - don’t you just love the feeling of getting something done, when it is over, when we can cross it off our list, and when we have gotten one step further? I sure do. But somehow, some things never seem to get done ...
Occasionally someone, a colleague for instance, asks us to do something and we respond ...
If you have plenty of meetings but not plenty of time between the meetings to do all those things you promised you would do before next meeting, you are ...
Today is a new day. This year is not like the last. Even if time sometimes appear to be an illusion, we can regard this turn of the year as a transition into something new - a new chapter, that begins with a new, white page ...
A rule-of-thumb I often recommend when it comes to what we write ...
”I don’t have time”. How often don’t we hear people say this? How often don’t we say it ourselves? And how many times have we not heard ...
Are you feeling the acceleration now as well? Summer is drawing near and we are rapidly approaching vacation. A client I spoke to the other day said that ...
When it comes to having good structure it is crucial that we are concrete, detailed and precise - especially when we are formulating ...
The one who strives to be efficient must have space to work in. If there is not enough space it will be difficult to spread out all our material to get a better overview. Some of us get another ...
When we want to prioritize consciously and more systematically rather than just randomly, it is good to know ...
One rather easy way to increase your ability to plan in advance in your work is to every week do ...
Practically everyone I meet receive a substantial amount of e-mails. But when I pose the question ”How many e-mails do you generally receive in a day?” during a lecture, the answers ...
There are countless great apps, programs and web services that assist us by managing our one and only to-do-list. In this single location we can ...
The environment I am in when working on my computer is not always as quiet as I would want it to be. To my left, other passengers on the train are speaking about ...
Some tasks we perform are unique. We do them once, break new ground, innovate and develop something new. But, most people also ...
Do you enjoy working? Do you find it easy to get into a high working-pace where you enjoy the process of ...
Sometimes when the deadline is fast approaching, some of us are tempted to ...
If you are well on your way in terms of creating and applying good structure you will surely have experienced the ...
