I talk a lot about working on HUGE projects in chunks of 30 minutes per day. My rationale is that you can do ANYTHING if you piece it into small bites. I like to set a timer so that a 30 minute project doesn’t swallow my entire day by becoming a 5 hour project. Lately...
Category Archives: Productivity
5 Tips for Email Maintenance
Email consumes so much of our daily attention and business energy. We spend so much time reading, responding, sorting message. And, we waste time re-reading them also. Think of your daily routine. Do you find yourself combing through emails trying to find that one email pertaining to a client? Do you find yourself reviewing an...
Common Sense of Correspondence
Lately, I’ve been a little shocked by people’s email and telephone protocol. What seems to me as something so simple and straightforward does not seem to be the case for everyone. I’m going to preface this post by laying down a few assumptions:
I believe in setting boundaries. ...
The “On Vacation” Feeling of Euphoria
You know that feeling of exhilaration that you feel as you are on an airplane on your way to a relaxing vacation? It’s that feeling of excitement, exhaustion, euphoria, relaxation… all bound together. Why is that? Yes, you are going on a very much-needed vacation. It’s a feeling that is based not only on the...
The Beauty of the Inbox
This week we’ve been chatting about office organization and the effect that it can have on getting things done. So far, we’ve covered feng shui for the office and setting boundaries in your work. Today, I’m gonna talk about the BEAUTY of the INBOX.
Until recently, I kinda poo-poo’d the notion of the inbox. You see,...