When You Avoid Your Task List
We often avoid or even abandon our tasks lists because they get too full. We’ve stuffed them with things we could, should, hafta, or wanna …
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Getting Busy Never Works
We easily get the results we want when we first put ourselves in a productive, good-feeling state. Sadly, most of us never do that. We run headlong into …
Take Time for Training
“I really can’t delegate this. They can’t do it as well as I can. Since I have to fix whatever they do, it’s faster if …
How to Deal with Haftadoos
We resist tasks that we think we have to do. We resist because none of us wants to be told what to do. Yet we somehow …
Getting It All Done Is Not The Point
Tasks, to dos, and emails. Projects, meetings, and calls. Documents, errands, chores! So much to do. I’m so far behind. How to get it all …
Leading Has (almost) Nothing To Do With Getting Stuff Done
Growing up, our adults taught us to get our stuff done. “It’s important,” they all said. We learned how to sleep through the night, eat …
How to See Failure
We can see failure in two ways: as something we work (damn) hard to avoid or as no big deal. When it’s the former, we …
Another Manic Monday
Welcome to another Monday morning: email overflowing, task lists jam-packed, and calendars stuffed with meetings. Ugh. Feeling the pressure, our response to another manic Monday is often to get …
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 off, we would …
Use Both Ways to Your Goals
There are two ways to achieve a goal. Both work. One involves planning a series of steps that logically flow from one to the next. …