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 it to be …
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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 …
The To-Do List is Dead…
Long live the to-do list! Even people who are good at making lists of their tasks get overwhelmed. Despite having up-to-date lists, they find it …
How to Pick the Best Few Things To Do
They say that we can be most productive not by getting more done but by picking the few best things to do. But how to …
Why We Are Awful at Picking What To Do Next
Most days we waste a whack of time and energy. We struggle to figure out–and do first–the most important, urgent, due, or priority tasks. We …
Inbox Blocks
They grab our attention and then they just hang around. Not important enough to do anything with right now and possibly important enough that we’d …
Quick Return to Calm Excitement
When we have let our Effectiveness System lapse or if we never really got it started, we need a way to launch ourselves toward the …
Balance Your System for Sanity
To stay effective and sane, balance the complexity of your personal effectiveness system. If it is too complex, you won’t use it. If it is …
Effectiveness Lists: The Barebone Edition
We’ve seen how trying to do it all is impossible. And how the far better way is to select what you will do from the …
3 Steps to Get Unstuck
Next time you find yourself stuck, procrastinating, or at a loss for what to do, do not beat yourself up. Instead, use this tip. It …