There is something paradoxically wonderful and thrilling about not prioritizing at all, but just improvising everything, putting out fires and doing what is either urgent, happens to come into our field of view or what we are asked by others to do ...
You have the option of marking e-mails with flags in Outlook, Mail (OS X) and Lotus Notes, and with stars in Gmail. Many people I meet use this function for e-mails which contain something they need to do something with. They thereby create ...
When did you last snooze a reminder? Was it this morning or just a few minutes ago? Or, do you not even use the reminder-function? A client asked me the other day about how to ...
Done, done, done - don’t you just love the feeling of getting something done, when it is over, when we can cross it off our list, and when we have gotten one step further? I sure do. But somehow, some things never seem to get done ...
Some of us have quite a few meetings to attend every week - so many in fact that we have difficulties finding time to ...
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 ...
There is so much to do. We have a to-do-list of considerable length already and ...
A rule-of-thumb I often recommend when it comes to what we write ...
”I don’t have time”. How often don’t we hear people say this? How often don’t we say it ourselves? And how many times have we not heard ...
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 ...
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 ...
Some tasks we perform are unique. We do them once, break new ground, innovate and develop something new. But, most people also ...
Do you enjoy working? Do you find it easy to get into a high working-pace where you enjoy the process of ...
