Life of E's

Recently I taught the class, If You Do Nothing Else This Semester, to help colleagues get organized at the beginning and throughout the semester. One Life of E's member who participated in the class asked the following: My latest problem has been the following dilemma between doing something right away and postponing it. Is one [...]

Tags: efficient, flexibility, organized, planning, Productivity, tasks, time management

Productivity and good manners often go hand in hand, and we all strive to be productive and to be viewed as being polite. Unfortunately, when we are less than productive, we often throw our good manners out the window. I'm reminded of a quote: "Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency [...]

Tags: call, delegate, interrupt, others, permission, respect, space, talking, tasks, verbal cues

Recently I taught the class If You Do Nothing Else This Semester to help colleagues get organized at the beginning and throughout the semester.  One Life of E's member who also took the class asked the following: How do I go on (or how do you go on) when the myriad tasks become so incredibly [...]

Tags: master list, organize, overwhelm, plan, Productivity, projects, review, task list, tasks, time management, weekly

Recently I taught the class If You Do Nothing Else This Semester to help colleagues get organized at the beginning and throughout the semester.  One Life of E's member who also took the class asked the following: My latest problem has been the following dilemma between doing something right away and postponing it. Once I [...]

Tags: organizing, overplanning, overspend on tasks, planning, procrastination, Productivity, projects, steps, tasks, where am I

Randy Dean says, "The Time Management Tech Doesn't Matter (Much!) — it is the "infrastructure" that lies underneath the tech that matters!"   Do you have your time/life/e-mail management infrastructure in place? Do you have all of the pieces you need to manage this important stuff properly? Do you even know what the right "infrastructure [...]

Tags: components, daily routine, important, infrastructure, list, projects, tasks, technology, time management

Multi-tasking is a hot topic and one that is misunderstood. Our society and the pace of our lives encourage the concept of multi-tasking. What is misunderstood is that often multi-tasking makes us less productive rather than more productive. Our brains do not switch well between tasks and in fact, are unable to do two tasks [...]

Tags: multitasking, Productivity, responsibilities, stress, tasks, tips

Sometimes even the best intentioned folks forget to do something. It is not malicious, it’s just unfortunate. Use any or all of these ideas when you’re concerned about remembering something (and we all need to be concerned about this). Put the item on your planner (PDA or paper) and then LOOK at your planner every [...]

Tags: accomplish, grown up, happiness, Productivity, success, tasks

In a recent *E*mail *E*xtravaganza, one of our members asked me some great questions and I wanted to share those questions and my answers so that they might help you, too. Q. How do I know if I am assigning enough tasks to get done for the day? I struggle with knowing how much time [...]

Tags: calendar, planning, Productivity, tasks, time management, to do lists

Recently, a subscriber to the Top Ten Productivity Tips (the original series…so named since there are now 8 different series) recently sent me this: I was just re-reading this great TTPT about using your planner productively and realize that I struggle with implementing this. I’m hoping you can point me to some answers. For many years, [...]

Tags: Circa, Franklin Covey, planners, projects, tasks