Useful ideas to help you do more of the work you want to do, the way you want to do it (and not the stuff you don’t).
If you’ve got a key project that you’ve chosen to work on yourself rather than finding someone else to do it for you, here’s a question to ask yourself:
“When was the last time I actually made any progress on this?”
(If the answer's today or yesterday, think about the time before that.)
If it's “a week last Thursday”, “Sometime last month” or simply “I can’t remember” then please stop fooling yourself that this is going to get done anytime soon. Or ever.
Read MoreWe’ve all got a task list.
Even people who don’t think they do, or simply don’t like the idea of having lists of things they need to work on.
They’ve got a to-do list too, but it’s all jumbled up in their head like a 1000-piece jigsaw without a picture on the box to show you how everything fits together.
Most people are somewhere in between.
So then the next question is how useful is it?
Read MoreIf you're finding yourself falling down another social media rabbit hole for the fifth time today instead of working on that thing you know you should be working on, you might want to try this.
Read MoreI spoke with another director this week who's still running their business using Post-It notes on their monitor. OK when you're just getting started, but not when you're pushing £250k…
Read MoreStop asking “how long is this going to take?” There’s a much more powerful question you can use instead.
Read MoreIf you're ever looking at a project and wondering whether or not you should do it yourself or find someone else to do it for you, there's one forcing function question that cuts straight to the chase every time.
Read MoreMany of us come up with far, far too many ideas to ever get done in our careers. So how do you choose which to work on?
Some of this selection process comes down to timing. It sounds a little obvious to say it but you need to be selecting the right project at the right time.
Read MoreMost people’s default is to say yes to whatever new idea comes their way. It's only later they might think about how much they’ve already taken on or what the project is really going to achieve.
What if your default became “no” or “maybe later”?
Read MoreWhere are you exceptional? What are the projects and tasks that are right in your sweet spot? The ones that you're great at doing, you enjoy, your clients love you for, and only you can do?
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