Sometimes we suddenly have more to do in a day than we originally planned and have time for ...
One of the reasons why we sometimes have such an overwhelming amount of things to do, is that we are doing ...
During an interview I gave the other day I was asked ”Isn’t there a risk that we structure things too much?”. I understand this concern, and I ...
When I speak to my clients about what ”steals” their time, ”inefficient ...
There is something paradoxically wonderful and thrilling about not prioritizing at all, but just improvising everything, putting out fires and doing what is either urgent, happens to come into our field of view or what we are asked by others to do ...
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 ...
