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 ...
Rather than writing things down in a to-do-list in order to remember, I want them to get done automatically. It is wonderful knowing that ...
If you have too much to do, you have to choose not to do something. But, many of my clients who are managers and who have too much to do have a hard time not prioritizing the things the people they manage ask them to do.
But, the same goes for people as for ...
As you improve your structure at work, you will unquestionably gain time. You will spend less time ...
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.
What do you do - and could you do - when ...
One aspect of structure that especially amuses me at the moment are the details in ...
Surely you have at some point gotten the recommendation to ”eat the biggest frog first” when it comes to how to structure and plan ...
When the tempo is high at work, we all need to prioritize among all the tasks on our list.
One popular way to ...
Is it possibly so that you are responsible for completing a recurring task which you tend to repeatedly postpone until last second and finish just before you run out of time? If so, then you will benefit from reading this tip.
A to-do-list which is easy to use is worth its weight in gold when we want to keep track of all the things we have to do and what we promised others we would do. But not all our commitments are as brief as to-do-tasks ...
Sure, we can ensure that we have a refined and well-functioning structure. By doing so we will do what needs to get done smoother, we will have more time for what really matters and if we should get stuck with something, we know what to do to get moving again. But, we are also often depending on ...
