Kill your (former) darlings
Datum: 2018-03-21 20:23
When we improve our structure, we create new things. We begin using ...
When we improve our structure, we create new things. We begin using ...
The researchers Mark, Gonzalez and Harris at the University of California have conducted a study on how often we get interrupted ...
Structuring how we work does entail a certain amount of standardizing, meaning we create ...
The new year is still fresh and more or less a blank page to fill. And even though your calendar might be filling up with appointments and engagements for the next year to come already, I am sure ...
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Many of those I meet during my lectures and who write to me feel stressed due to the seemingly endless ...
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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 ...
There are some things that we believe we need to do but which seldom get urgent enough for us to ...
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 ...
The number of alternatives of collaboration- and project management tools just keeps increasing as new ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sometimes we have tasks that need to get done soon but which we for some reason tend not to prioritize and instead ...