People talk about impulse control, that is, the ability to remain focused on doing something even if you get an impulse to do something else. My good friend and fellow speaker ...
Arriving at a meeting out of breath and painfully aware that you have not had the time to read the material you were supposed to have gone through previous to the meeting, isn’t that great ...
Some people tend to mark an email as unread after they have read it a first time, since ...
This Tuesday, I visited Cargotec's, the multinational crane and truck manufacturer, wellbeing week to share a handful practical tips on structure that help us keep healthy and ...
If you take meeting notes in OneNote it would be great if the next steps you agree on during the meeting could end up as...
When the holiday is over and a new season begins, and we do not want to sucked into the business aimlessly and rush here and there depending on what comes up that we have to deal with, but rather ...
The year’s first six months are coming to an end, and for many of us it is soon time for some kind of vacation. Regardless of the length of our time off we will sooner or later ...
Microsoft Lists is a fairly new addition to the Microsoft 365 family, but for what can you use it?
In this episode, the 520, I share four suitable uses for Microsoft Lists.
We get some tasks done right away without any problems or delays, while others we postpone - over and over again. We know very well ...
We all have tasks that we have to do on a regular basis, for example every week, the last working day of each month, or every other Tuesday. Some of my recurring tasks are ...
Once in a while the implications of our structural inefficiencies and traps are particularly apparent. The workday feels overwhelming, we run from one ...
Rather than writing things down in a to-do-list in order to remember, I want them to get done automatically. It is wonderful knowing that ...
“Storing” and “doing” are not the same thing. Still, confusing them often leads to a very common ...
As you improve your structure at work, you will unquestionably gain time. You will spend less time ...
One aspect of structure that especially amuses me at the moment are the details in ...
Surely you have at some point gotten the recommendation to ”eat the biggest frog first” when it comes to how to structure and plan ...
Is it possibly so that you are responsible for completing a recurring task which you tend to repeatedly postpone until last second and finish just before you run out of time? If so, then you will benefit from reading this tip.
A to-do-list which is easy to use is worth its weight in gold when we want to keep track of all the things we have to do and what we promised others we would do. But not all our commitments are as brief as to-do-tasks ...
Sure, we can ensure that we have a refined and well-functioning structure. By doing so we will do what needs to get done smoother, we will have more time for what really matters and if we should get stuck with something, we know what to do to get moving again. But, we are also often depending on ...
