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 …
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Leading Has (almost) Nothing To Do With Getting Stuff Done
Growing up, our adults taught us to get our stuff done. “It’s important,” they all said. We learned how to sleep through the night, eat …
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, …
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, …
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 …