Beware Artificial Urgency
Artificial Urgency is what you do to make some tasks stand out in your lists because you fear you won’t get them done otherwise. Artificial Urgency …
Thriving
Your and your company’s capacity to scale, deliver, and enjoy sustainably.
Trouble Getting Started with Your Effectiveness Habits?
Many of you have told me, “I want to start using these effectiveness tools but I haven’t gotten around to it just yet.” If you …
Your Lists
When you adopt the Effectiveness Habits, you end up with a set of interrelated lists that forms your task system. Here are the most important …
The Catch
Today’s note is about a basic tool called The Catch. It is a tool that most of us really need and don’t use. And if …
The Four Lenses of Success
Success for you or your organization is simple. You need only look through four lenses described below to see where you have trouble and where …
The Effectiveness Habits: an Overview
For quick reference and review, here is a list of the seven Effectiveness Habits with brief descriptions and links to detailed descriptions of each. 1 …
How to unstick the lingering “to dos” on your lists
You may have an item or two on your to-do list(s) that seem to just sit there, gathering dust, and not getting done. Every time …
The Ladder
The Ladder, like The Flip, helps with Effectiveness Habit #2: Feel Good. Then Act. To feel good, remove your attention from thoughts about what you do not want as …
How to know when you are feeling bad
Effectiveness Habit #2: Feel Good. Then Act. asks you to act only when you feel good. Sometimes, though, you may feel bad and be unaware that …
The Flip
The Flip is an unexpectedly effective tool you can use to feel good before you act. (See Effectiveness Habit #2: Feel Good. Then Act.) When …