How to Pick What Next to Do
There are exactly three ways to select the next thing to do. First, we can do whatever we always do. When faced with situation A, we …
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How to Adopt a New Personal Organization System
Adopting a new system for organizing ourselves can be daunting. We can do it with ease, though, if we follow two principles, watch out for three …
Overwhelm is a Sign
Overwhelm is a sign that we are trying to keep track of our tasks in our head. Though our brains are wonderful, they are terrible at …
Do Less and Accomplish More
“I am so busy.” – Everyone these days Let’s interrupt our busy-ness and our quest for ever more efficiency and productivity with a pause that …
This Week Made Simple
As we begin our week, let’s remember that we need not get everything done. We don’t even need to get most things done. All that’s …
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 …
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 …
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 …