If we are keeping track of all the things we need to do, have organized the materials we need, and manage our flows of information so systematically that we feel on top of things ...
Occasionally someone, a colleague for instance, asks us to do something and we respond ...
If you have plenty of meetings but not plenty of time between the meetings to do all those things you promised you would do before next meeting, you are ...
There is so much to do. We have a to-do-list of considerable length already and ...
When I am on vacation, I rarely answer emails. Since I have my own company, I still like to ”keep an eye on things”, and have been keeping that eye on my inbox during my time off, but I have really only ...
Believing in yourself and having an optimistic approach to the world around you is wonderful, but optimism regarding how long something takes often comes back to bite you ...
Today is a new day. This year is not like the last. Even if time sometimes appear to be an illusion, we can regard this turn of the year as a transition into something new - a new chapter, that begins with a new, white page ...
Sometimes truly challenging tasks fall into our lap and we have to put all our resources to use to solve them. These tasks can be ...
A rule-of-thumb I often recommend when it comes to what we write ...
If I recall it correctly it was when I gave a lecture at a Rotary-meeting a few years ago, that a man came up to me and excitedly said ...
There is a lot of talk about having an empty inbox at the moment. And I also often speak about the wonderful feeling of having ...
Are you feeling the acceleration now as well? Summer is drawing near and we are rapidly approaching vacation. A client I spoke to the other day said that ...
When it comes to having good structure it is crucial that we are concrete, detailed and precise - especially when we are formulating ...
The one who strives to be efficient must have space to work in. If there is not enough space it will be difficult to spread out all our material to get a better overview. Some of us get another ...
When we want to prioritize consciously and more systematically rather than just randomly, it is good to know ...
One rather easy way to increase your ability to plan in advance in your work is to every week do ...
It is when we place something somewhere ”temporarily” that ...
Practically everyone I meet receive a substantial amount of e-mails. But when I pose the question ”How many e-mails do you generally receive in a day?” during a lecture, the answers ...
There are countless great apps, programs and web services that assist us by managing our one and only to-do-list. In this single location we can ...
The environment I am in when working on my computer is not always as quiet as I would want it to be. To my left, other passengers on the train are speaking about ...
