by Somuchbetter | Jul 3, 2018 | Favourite Experiment, Focus, Prioritise, To Do List
Recently I’ve been experimenting with putting tasks into buckets and doing all of the same types together. A bunch of emails, a sequence of calls, a block of thinking time, you get the drift. It helps me feel more focused, takes less energy and gets more done. I...
by Somuchbetter | Jul 3, 2018 | Favourite Experiment, Focus, Prioritise, To Do List
Own a smartphone? How often do you look at it each day? If you’re like me, a lot. A quick trick I’m trying is putting a photo of my to-do list, or just most important tasks, and saving it as the lock screen. At least now if I check my phone a lot, I get a...
by Somuchbetter | Jul 3, 2018 | Decision Making, Favourite Read, Prioritise
I like a list. This read is a list of the 9 things the most effective people always do. Note effective, not efficient i.e. getting the right things done. What could you learn from the habits of Elon Musk, Warren Buffett and Herb Keller? See full article here....
by Somuchbetter | Jul 3, 2018 | Decision Making, Favourite Read, Prioritise
This blog post featured in the HuffPost offers a framework for making decisions without regret. The ideas I find most useful are: taking perspective – how would I feel about the decision at 80? paying attention to procrastination – what’s the real...
by Somuchbetter | Jul 3, 2018 | Favourite Experiment, Prioritise
To help minimise the self-imposed busyness that Tim Kreider talks about in the Favourite Read, I’m using the concept of Cancel-elation. The basic idea is if I would be elated if an calendar entry was cancelled, then why accept it in the first place? Try it and...
by Somuchbetter | Jul 3, 2018 | Email, Favourite Tool, Get Organised, Prioritise
The brain is for creating ideas, not storing them, Trello does that. One of my favourite info-capture apps, it provides a place to collect ideas, photos, weblinks and more in one place. What’s more, ‘boards’ (as they are called) can be shared with...
