Productivity Secret: Never Get It All Done
What does your to do list feel like? We often feel ourselves pushed (from within and from outside ourselves) to make things happen. And this …
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Get More Productive with Well-Formed Tasks
When we come across a poorly-formed task on our task list, we either slow down to figure out what to do or just skip it …
Not Too Much, not Too Little
Too much structure, process, and regulation strangles any endeavor. Too little limits growth and, ultimately, everyone’s happiness. Just the right amount makes things easier, speeds …
Secret Weapon Against Invading Emails
There they are. Staring at us. Draining us. We spend lots of energy resisting and attacking them. And just as we think we’ve conquered them, more appear, …
Five Steps to Set and Hit Goals For Real This Year (Even Those You’ve Failed at Before)
Setting goals at the start of the year is good and necessary. Yet our goals often seem tinged. While we may say things like, “This …
The Holy Grail of Getting It Done
The holy grail of getting it done–no matter what tools or approaches we use–is knowing that whatever we are working on now is the best possible, …
Fail Your Way to Success
Embracing failure is an oddly effective way to ultimately succeed. This does not mean just hoping everything goes well, winging it, ignoring it, or just bracing for impact. …
Strong Decisions Quickly
We can waste lots of time and energy by trying to think our way through problems, to figure out what to do next, or to make …
Why We Need An Effectiveness System
We are amazing thinkers. We are very good at solving problems, creating art, achieving goals, and telling stories. What we are not good at is remembering …
How Much Process Is Too Much?
We each have a process and procedure comfort zone. We fall somewhere on a continuum from, “We can never have enough process, procedures, and policies (plus data …