Setting due dates on all our to-do-tasks is a trap that is easy to fall into. I only recommend that people set a due date for a task if it actually ...
There are simple or fun tasks we race to the desk to get done as soon as they land on it, and then there are their opposites ...
We sometimes write notes. Well, most of us do anyway. We are on the phone and agree that we will do something, and to not forget it, we scribble it down on a piece of paper. We are in the middle of ...
Some us receive our fair share of cc’d emails, meaning we receive a copy of an email primarily intended for ...
There are some things that we believe we need to do but which seldom get urgent enough for us to ...
Setting goals when our work involves producing or selling something is fairly ...
Regardless what you think of New Year's resolutions, they are pretty common. And for good reason too. To many people ...
It became clear the other day how deceptive measuring our progress can be. I was discussing with a client what ...
It is definitely a good idea to divide larger tasks into smaller ones, since they are then ...
When we formulate what we have to do that we will not do immediately, a good way to appropriately ...
Have you ever suddenly realized that you just spent much longer than you intended browsing the ...
Occasionally we have a deadline before which the workload seems to increase, and our working speed certainly does. For some, this ...
Brilliant ideas can appear at any time - often when we are doing something entirely different from ...
If you often have more to do than there is time for, you are letting too many tasks be ...
Let’s say you know something a colleague does not, and you want to teach the colleague how it is done. It does not have to be some complicated expert knowledge, but can ...
Our storage spaces and the amount of materials we save there can get out of hand so easily. Suddenly there is more of everything everywhere ...
When I a few weeks ago wrote about cleaning up amongst files when we are ”visiting” a folder anyway in one of these newsletters, and asked for readers’ suggestions of how to ...
The most common positive effect of having improved their structure mentioned by my clients is that they now, after having refined their structure, ...
What we refer to as goals are actually a set of tools we can all ...
When something new you have to do lands on your desk, it can be tempting to ...
