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 ...
Creating a good structure is immensely helpful - if you can remember it, that is. A common trap many fall into is ...
I had just spoken enthusiastically about the immense value of choosing only one tool to keep your entire to-do list in at the full-day course when one of the participants ...
When I worked as a quality manager many years ago I was often reminded of that what we needed ...
You keep putting off one of your tasks again and again – even though you know you could get it done.
In this week’s episode of Done! - No. 645 - I show how an AI can help you ...
Amongst many other useful tips in his book "Deep Work", Cal Newport shares what he calls his “shutdown ritual”, which is a method intended to ...
One of the many small annoyances related to these digital times is that we tend to have a rather large number of ...
It is so tiring in the long run to always have to hurry, stress, and worry towards the end of a task or project. Having good ...
How were the vacation? Nice and peaceful? How were the final days of work leading up to it? Many I meet have a very hectic time before the summer vacation. So many things need to ...
Do you usually begin by doing the short, simple tasks you have on your to-do list when the list of tasks is long and you have a lot to do? I do, and if you do as well, we are both ...
Many people I meet are now facing a few very intense weeks until the summer holidays that beckon ...
Do you sometimes attend to the urgent, quick tasks first before tackling the bigger, more important ones? Many people do – so many that the effect has a name.
This week's episode of Done! is about what you can do to ...
