Have you ever had a task or project that you needed multiple days to complete? For projects that will take multiple days to complete, you want to be kind to your future self and leave notes along the way.
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Last week, my blog post was about using the SHIFT + DELETE keys to permanently delete items in your Microsoft Outlook Inbox. If you start getting really good at this, your fingers will sometimes move faster than your conscious thought. So fast that you might accidentally permanently delete an email that you didn’t want to actually delete. Don’t worry, the email can be recovered.
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If you’re using Microsoft Outlook and simply delete an email from your Inbox, you know that the email then moves to your Deleted Items. And if you’re someone like I am who clears out your Deleted Items as well, then you’d have to delete that one email two times to make it disappear. This is inefficient. Until I introduce you to the magic of SHIFT + DELETE.
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In our training sessions, we teach people how to utilize their tasks and calendars to make order in their lives and save time. Often students in the beginning stages realize just how bad they are with time math.
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In our training sessions with clients, we teach people how to be the architects of their time. When people start to adopt the systems that we teach, they often find that the time they anticipate they’ll need for a task is incorrect. How do we get better at estimating how long tasks will take? We can time them.
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Did you know that you can edit the subject line of a received email?
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Sometimes when I have a long, physically demanding task to do, my brain rebels and tells me there’s no way to finish the task. Instead of convincing myself that I need to do the whole task, I ask myself how much time I could give to it.
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Have you ever been included on an email conversation chain that you didn’t want or need to see?
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The single most prominent issue I see with individuals as we dive into any productivity engagement is that there's not enough awareness around the difference between movement and progress.
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Do you use Microsoft Outlook? Do you have a lot of email file folders in Outlook? Do you spend a ton of time scrolling with your mouse to open or drag emails into those file folders? Did you know that you could designate email file folders as favorites and pin them to the top of your inbox screen?
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This week’s blog post continues our series on living the sage advice now. Another piece of guidance that our elders often give is, “Never stop learning.”
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The last few weeks, I’ve been writing about living the sage advice now. Another wish that our elders pass along as they’re reflecting on their lives is, “I wish I stayed in touch with my friends.”
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In last week’s blog post, I wrote about worry and how I seek to lessen it more and more in my life. Another train of thought that I ride when worry seeks to sink my brain is to focus on a tree.
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In my past couple blog posts, I’ve written about living the sage advice now. Another regret that our elders reveal in order to help us avoid it is, “I wish I had worried less.”
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In last week’s blog post, I wrote about living the sage advice now. When people are toward the end of their lives, they tend to give on-the-money, profound advice. Another piece of wisdom that our elders gift us a lot is, “I wish I had lived a life true to myself and not based on other people’s expectations.”
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The people in our society that live to older ages have so much time and experience in this world that they often have very good advice. And when I was younger and I would hear their words of wisdom and reflect, graciously my brain would think thoughts like, “Well, they’ve been alive a long time, they probably know what they’re talking about from experience, what they’re saying makes sense to me on a deep level, so this is now what I’m going to try to live in my own life starting now.”
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This week, I’m continuing the theme from last week’s post about habits I stopped doing because they don’t serve me and are a waste of time and energy. Another habit or thought that I am working on abolishing in my life is thinking I’m too old to do something.
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At the start of each new year, I reflect on what I want to do differently than the year before. Sometimes I want to start something new. But other times, I want to stop a habit that doesn’t serve me and only wastes my time and energy. A habit that I see a lot in myself and in our culture in general that I think doesn’t serve us is apologizing when we cry. Please note, crying is not the habit I want to stop. I think crying is vulnerable, cathartic, beautiful, and human. But apologizing for crying…now that is something that I personally want to stop doing and to encourage others to halt as well. And this is why.
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This is a PSA to all of my fellow pack rats out there: USE THE FANCY GIFTS.
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Being habitually busy is one of the most devious forms of procrastination.
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