The Urgent/Important-matrix is probably the structural tool that most people are familiar with. Chances are that you have ...
Performing a recurring task at frequent intervals gives us a golden opportunity to become even more efficient. Every time we ...
There are times when thoughts of work just keep spinning through our mind. We have so many things going on now, and so many things ...
Do you have a ”to-be-sorted”-pile? You know, one of those piles that lie there on your desk ”for now” and which you intend to ...
There are offers we wish to decline, things we do not want to do, tasks we no longer want to be responsible for doing. But to many it is hard to say no ...
When your workday consists of meetings back to back, the tasks you manage to get done in between might only be the ...
How we structure our lives and workdays is a constant process that requires continuous refinement. If you ever were to ...
People talk about impulse control, that is, the ability to remain focused on doing something even if you get an impulse to do something else. My good friend and fellow speaker ...
Have you ever put up a sticky note where you see it in order to not miss something, but end up seeing it so much that you after a while do not see it (and still miss the thing that was written on the note)?
This is similar to ...
Arriving at a meeting out of breath and painfully aware that you have not had the time to read the material you were supposed to have gone through previous to the meeting, isn’t that great ...
When you finally have time to do that thing that you have postponed a while longer than you wish, it is understandable that ...
Sometimes at work, you need to say no. It can be hard - at least in the moment. Here is a tool that makes it a lot easier.
In Done! No. 528, I share a way for you to make sure that you spend your time at work wisely:
Sometimes, we regret having accepted to do something a long time ago that we now, when the time is here, definitely would not ...
When the holiday is over and a new season begins, and we do not want to sucked into the business aimlessly and rush here and there depending on what comes up that we have to deal with, but rather ...
The year’s first six months are coming to an end, and for many of us it is soon time for some kind of vacation. Regardless of the length of our time off we will sooner or later ...
We get some tasks done right away without any problems or delays, while others we postpone - over and over again. We know very well ...
When you are overwhelmed with work and things to do outside of work, a useful trick to feel less stressed (and thereby more productive) is to ...
We all have tasks that we have to do on a regular basis, for example every week, the last working day of each month, or every other Tuesday. Some of my recurring tasks are ...
Once in a while the implications of our structural inefficiencies and traps are particularly apparent. The workday feels overwhelming, we run from one ...
