Posts Tagged ‘priority’

A Quick Guide to Email: Not Being “That Guy”

If you're reading this, odds are you are a knowledge worker whose time is very valuable and who requires large chunks of uninterrupted time in order to do whatever it is you are being paid to do.  You aren't cranking widgets.  Instead, you're trying to discover the history and social significance of widgets across cultural contexts, or you're trying to design a revolutionary new machine to produce widgets, or you're… Continue reading

Organization Session: A Weekly Check In Practice for Ultimate Development

Creating a weekly retreat gives yourself a delightful space to reconnect, review, and readjust, where necessary. It is a big picture look in which you set up the blueprint for your week. This frees you up so that you can relax into it and trust that you have already implemented the wishes of your highest self. Everything works more beautifully as you get better at being more aware of what you want while setting up your time. Continue reading

Productivity maybe . . . but for what purpose?

Why choices about what to do with the time and effort you save are more critical

One reasonable definition of increased personal productivity is creating the ability to do more with less effort and in a shorter time. Nothing wrong with that — at least until you ask what you will do with the time and effort you have saved. Not so many years ago, many people — including governments and… Continue reading

Productivity & Organizing Myth #10 – We need to be at all those meetings!

Myth: We need to be at all those meetings and events that have made their way onto our calendars. Reality: We can succeed at work and be happy with a modest number of meetings and activities. Do you say any of these things?
  • I haven’t been home at 6 o’clock in the evening for weeks.
  • We are constantly trying to balance work with kids’ activities with family commitments.
  • I have to schedule a

Pick Your Urgencies

How many times have you heard from your coworkers, friends and yourself the old line about being too busy fighting alligators to drain the swamp? How often does your life seem to be a car crash of intersecting urgencies? It's easy to get sucked into a business culture where everything is urgent, everything is a priority. You start your new job and on day one you're thrown into crisis… Continue reading

Productivity & Organizing Myth #3 – I don’t have time to prioritize

Productivity & Organizing Myth #3 – I don’t have time to prioritize As a new guest author to lifehack.org and an experienced productivity consultant I would like to start by naming and dispelling common productivity and organizing myths. This series will be posted each Wednesday until we cover the top 10. Myth: You don’t have time to prioritize because you’re so busy doing the things that you’re responsible to do… Continue reading

Finding Time

A frequently asked question about my productivity is, "How do you find the time to do all that?" I often joke that I don't sleep (and well, I don't really sleep enough), but the truth of the matter is that I've spent a lot of time really examining the way I spend my time, and I've made decisions based on what I've decided mattered to me. Let's talk about it… Continue reading

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