One risk of having as many meetings as lots of people testify to having right now is that you ...
The annual wheel is round. The to-do list is straight. How will you make them fit together?
In this week’s Done! No. 652, you will see how you can bring your annual wheel into ...
I have often used the verb “process" to describe how I (and I am sure you as well) deal with what comes in via emails and other messaging channels in a systematic way ...
Have you noticed that for some reason, it is easier to say yes to doing things you are not really sure you want to do if they happen a while from now as opposed to if they were to occur soon? ...
A lot of things need to click when choosing the right app to create your structure in. It needs to have ...
A while ago, I addressed the issue of remembering to read, respond to, or in some other way acknowledge messages you ...
In spite of all our best efforts to keep our workload on a reasonable level, we occasionally become ...
“When did we decide that?”, one of your colleagues from the highly prioritized project asks in the middle of the intense workshop you are having. “I was working on ...
“Storing” and “doing” are not the same thing. Things that need to be done have a definite ending - when you have done them. Once you have done whatever it is, you can ...
Sometimes there is just not enough time. You have a deadline fast approaching, but what you need to do takes longer than you had anticipated - much longer. You ...
Even if we work digitally most of the time we sometimes need to print things. It can be something that needs to be ...
One of the participants in my Swedish online course called “Keep track of everything you have to do with Microsoft To-Do” asked me if he ...
Do you allow emails to remain in the inbox until you have done everything you needed to do as a consequence of receiving it? If you do, this means ...
We all end up in situations at work when we have to say no. If it feels uncomfortable to say no to your colleagues, you will ...
Many people describe their everyday lives at work as a constant struggle for their time and ...
A few years back I gave a lecture on structure to the people at the museum of ethnography in Stockholm. As usual, during my assignments, I myself learned something new ...
Creating a good structure is immensely helpful - if you can remember it, that is. A common trap many fall into is ...
I had just spoken enthusiastically about the immense value of choosing only one tool to keep your entire to-do list in at the full-day course when one of the participants ...
Amongst many other useful tips in his book "Deep Work", Cal Newport shares what he calls his “shutdown ritual”, which is a method intended to ...
One of the many small annoyances related to these digital times is that we tend to have a rather large number of ...
