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This is the fourth in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
Ambitious people, like the people I coach, and probably you, juggle loads of projects and tasks for work and their personal lives. Many have some kind of system, whether it's digit
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This is the third in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
Your email isn't a to-do list!
If you've followed the latest and ever-evolving thinking in personal productivity the way I have, you may have seen or heard that dogmatic st
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This is the second in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
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If you've ever had a personal productivity system, has your list of tasks, to-dos, or whatever you call them ever grown so long that it's become unmanageable? I think I know the a...
This is the first in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.
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You've probably tried at least a few (or more) apps and approaches designed to help you manage your important projects and tasks. And based on my experience as a coach working wi
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If you’re reading this, then I’m assuming that you don’t have a lot of time. So I’ll try to be relatively brief, which isn’t always easy for me. You've probably been reading my blog posts, after all.
Like you. Like everyone. I often find that it’s difficult to keep my long-term projects on track an...
If there’s one thing that’s consistent about the lives of the people I coach, it’s that they’re “busy.”
I’m sure your life is busy, too.
I’ve read a lot in the productivity world about the overuse of the word busy and its status as a misguided badge of honor. Whether busy is a reasonable term to u...
You have less time than you think to get the important work in your life done, so you need to get focused, manage your projects and tasks effectively, and find ways to save time wherever you can. I’ve written about the scarcity of time, and I’ve suggested that a first step to getting a handle on the...
How often have you gotten to the end of your day or week only to realize that the work you consider to be most important still isn't done?
Based on the experience of the people I coach, I’m willing to bet the answer is: almost every week.
Not the best feeling is it?
And what does “important” mean...
