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"I so regret saying yes!"

I have felt that dreadful feeling before ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some people tend to mark an email as unread after they have read it a first time, since ...

Do you know the principle "Sift out at the source"?

I first heard of that when I gave a talk at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm.

It can be useful for you who often get too much to do.

How? Well, let me tell you!

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 ...

We all need to declutter our workspace from time to time. But, did you know that ...

Knowing that you should get enough sleep is one thing. Actually going to bed when you ought to is ...

Welcome to the autumn season and a new edition of Done! - the 523:rd, about mistakes and why it might be wise to collect them.

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 ...

Sometimes there are just too many meetings. And, one have to ask: do you really need to ...

About six months ago or so (in Done! No. 500, to be specific), I addressed the issue of remembering to read, respond to, or in some other way acknowledge messages you and I receive in an increasing number of channels. I am referring to ...