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How to Use Due Dates Effectively for Project and Task Management productivity series

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,...

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When (and How) Your Email Can Be a To-Do List productivity series

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...

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When a GTD-Style Weekly Review of Your Projects and Tasks Takes Too Long productivity series

This is the second in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.

 

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?...

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Is There a Simpler Approach to a Personal Productivity System? productivity series

This is the first in a series of posts about my search for a simple, lightweight approach to personal productivity.

 

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...

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Three Tips to Make Progress on Big or Long-Term Projects When Your Schedule is Full productivity

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...

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How to Advance Your Career When You Donโ€™t Have a Lot of Time networking productivity

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...

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Resources to Help You Focus, Manage Your Work Effectively, and Save Time productivity

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...

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Why Your Important Work Isn't Getting Done productivity

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...

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