time management | Messy Desk

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Setting Priorities: When everything feels important

Is your desk or life messy because everything feels important? Do you spend time whatever takes your fancy, not your highest priority?

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I Used the Pomodoro® Timer and Here's What Happened

What's hardest for you? Getting started or focusing on a single task? Cycles of focus and rest can be helpful for both of those barriers.

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5 Ways to Get to the Office on Time After a Year+ of Working at Home

The other day, I worked with a client about her upcoming return to the office and she worried about being late. These 5 strategies...

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The Reflective Spiral of Personal Growth

Reflective practice helps you make better choices and move your life in the direction you want it to go.

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Reframing Deadlines as Finish Lines

What would happen if we started thinking of deadlines differently? You don't really want to die when you finish that project, do you?

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The Somewhat Weekly Review: Vital Element of Messy Organization

Part reflection, part planning, the weekly review is a core practice that can help you stay on track and clear your mind.

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Eight Ways to Double Your Time

When it comes to chips and dip, double-dipping is gross. But I’m no George Costanza, so my idea of double-dipping is a time management trick

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Introducing the Messy Desk Journal: No foolish consistency

For years, I sought a perfect system that I can consistently maintain to keep my life in order--in time, housekeeping, and thought...

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Be Productive Like a Sloth

I met some sloths last year. Most were asleep, but I was lucky enough to catch one walking veerrrry slooowwwlllyyy on the ground.

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Resilient Scheduling: Planning for the Unplanned

Last Saturday was a rare day in my worklife. I completed everything on my daily "to do" list and had time to start on other waiting projects