In order to make yourself wholeheartedly “uninterruptible” when you need to focus, you need to ...
I have often used the verb “process" to describe how I (and I am sure you as well) deal with what comes in via emails and other messaging channels in a systematic way ...
Are you spending time on the right things? Are you spending the right amount of time on the right things? Or, are you wasting ...
Have you noticed that for some reason, it is easier to say yes to doing things you are not really sure you want to do if they happen a while from now as opposed to if they were to occur soon? ...
Have you experienced this? You are working on a task that requires your concentration. As part of the task, you need to..
You need to declutter your workspace from time to time - or at least you feel the need to declutter, clean, or clear things out. There is just so much ...
A lot of things need to click when choosing the right app to create your structure in. It needs to have ...
When you’re trying to formulate something and it’s slow going, what do you do to get unstuck?
This week’s episode of Done! is about the versatile author Neil Gaiman’s trick for ...
If you have to decide every day which tasks to focus on to reach your goals, your direction can easily become arbitrary and unsteady.
But if you ...
Sometimes there are just too many meetings. Sure, meetings are a necessary and practical way to ...
A while ago, I addressed the issue of remembering to read, respond to, or in some other way acknowledge messages you ...
In spite of all our best efforts to keep our workload on a reasonable level, we occasionally become ...
“When did we decide that?”, one of your colleagues from the highly prioritized project asks in the middle of the intense workshop you are having. “I was working on ...
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. You ...
One of the participants in my Swedish online course called “Keep track of everything you have to do with Microsoft To-Do” asked me if he ...
Do you allow emails to remain in the inbox until you have done everything you needed to do as a consequence of receiving it? If you do, this means ...
How will you find time for other important things when customers constantly call and email? Your idea of what you’ll get done during the day falls apart repeatedly!
This week’s episode of Done! is about a blunt trick for those of you whose customers seem to control your time.
We all end up in situations at work when we have to say no. If it feels uncomfortable to say no to your colleagues, you will ...
Many people describe their everyday lives at work as a constant struggle for their time and ...
A few years back I gave a lecture on structure to the people at the museum of ethnography in Stockholm. As usual, during my assignments, I myself learned something new ...
