When you start a task, do you decide upfront what level of quality will suffice for the task? Or do you always try to do your best, even if it isn’t required? Perfectionism can be both a blessing and a curse. It imbues our work with a sense of quality
How organized are your tasks? Do you have them organized into clean categories where every task has a place and every task is in its place? Or are your tasks more like dirty socks in a teenager’s bedroom, scattered into random piles, sometimes matching and making sense, but other times
Last week I fell out of my daily planning routine. Day after day I created…no plan. The problem of falling out of a daily planning routine is that you lose all momentum, and then getting started is that much harder. As your unplanned days pile up, you forget what it
Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of tasks, appointments and activities you need to do in a day? Do you feel like you never get anything done and that your time is slipping away from you? If so, then it might be time to consider using a structured
Maintaining focus and productivity can be difficult in the fast-paced world of today. Finding effective techniques to lessen mental clutter is crucial since it frequently serves as a big obstacle to attaining our goals. Today we’ll discuss how the “Skip Today” technique can help clear your mind of distractions so
Perhaps you’ve heard that you should be adding buffer time when estimating projects or planning your day. Even outside the discipline of time management buffers are recommended for financial stability—to keep a certain amount of savings to buffer against unexpected expenses. But how do buffers actually work to make you
The terms “task management” and “time management” are often used interchangeably, yet they are distinct disciplines. Learning the differences between the two can make you better at both. So what exactly is the difference then? Task management is the discipline of planning and executing what you need to do: which
As the new year begins, it’s common for people to create a list of New Year’s resolutions: goals you want to achieve, habits you want to start or break, projects you want to complete. Most resolutions don’t work because we don’t make them actionable or we don’t shift our identity
Do you do a year-end review where you take a look at what you did the past year and develop plans for the next? End-of-the-year reviews are wonderful to help you reflect on what you did this year and can be used to inform how you approach next year. But
Last Wednesday, OpenAI released their newest AI text generation model, ChatGPT, and I started experimenting with it to find out what sort of productivity advice it might give. Turns out, it’s not so bad. Some of it I couldn’t say better myself. Read on to see the advice it gave