Excuse This Interruption
We interrupt your work day to bring you this special message. All that stress you’re running and all those tasks you’re doing right now? How’s …
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Before Jumping Into Action Today
Just a quick reminder to pause before jumping into action today: take time to find thoughts that physically feel good to think. Spend about 5 minutes. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …