How to Resolve Yesterday’s Unfinished Tasks
Wrap Up the Past to Prepare for the Future
Is your task list getting overwhelmed with the tasks you didn’t finish yesterday? Here’s how to let go of the past so you can embrace the future.
planning
How to Teach Your Kids to Budget with a Carnival
Help children learn a budget means freedom with a back-to-school tradition
We can turn ordinary events into life lessons for our kids. We just need to look at the world through their eyes.
Keep Your Productivity On-Course with a Mid-Week Audit
Reviewing your progress lets you correct a bad estimate sooner
We plan at high, strategic levels of thinking and execute at lower, tactical levels. A quick check mid-week can help us make sure our tactics fit with our strategies.
How to Use Digital and Paper Calendars Together
Get the best of both worlds with a little structure
Paper and digital calendars complement each other nicely. Here’s how to set up your system to get the best of both technologies.
Why You Should Use a Paper Calendar
Tried-and-True Technology for Your Busy Life
Paper and ink are thousands of years old, but they’re still one of the best technologies to handle your busy life.
8 Reasons You Need to Use a Digital Calendar
Paper is pretty, but pretty limited
A digital calendar gives you more power over your schedule than a little ink smeared on a piece of paper.
Three Documents to Plan the Perfect Vacation
Planning doesn’t go out the window just because you’re heading out of town
In high school, we’d head out on Friday night with little more thought than figuring out who could borrow a car. We just wanted to get out of the house! We’d figure out what we were doing as we went. More often than not, that meant we’d end up just hanging out talking or something […]
What is your Win Condition for the Day?
You can win the day without completing every task
Don’t fall into the trap of thinking you have to complete every task to have a productive day. Productivity isn’t all-or-nothing.
How Many Tasks Should You Do in a Day?
The answer may (but shouldn’t) surprise you
Try doing too much today, and you’ll feel like a failure, no matter how much you got done. Don’t do enough, and you won’t conquer the world on schedule. Here’s how to find the sweet spot.
How to Lay Out Your Ideal Week
Start each week from a blueprint of how you want to work
There’s no need to create your weekly schedule from scratch. Once you figure out how you work best, use that as the starting point for each week.