The Expedient Route Often Isn’t
Things done under pressure often backfire. That person we urgently needed to hire, the deal we really needed to make, and the […]
Tag: to do
Productivity Boost From NOT Improving Your Productivity System
A productivity system helps us capture, organize, and plan things to do. Whether we use an electronic or paper-based system, we want […]
How to Pick What Next to Do
There are exactly three ways to select the next thing to do. First, we can do whatever we always do. When faced with […]
Defeating Never-Ending To Do Lists with a Permanent Marker
Let’s pretend for a moment that our to do lists were infinitely long. What if, no matter how many items we checked […]
It’s Not That You Are Too Busy
Though commenting on how busy we are and how much we have to do has become a bit of a global pastime, […]
Context
Getting people to do stuff. Sheesh. That’s tough. We try asking, telling, pleading, demanding, yelling, guilting, pushing, and praying. While these methods […]
Too Much Flour
You cannot fit 20 pounds of flour in a 2.5 kilo sac. Just can’t do it. You also cannot fit everything that […]