Why Is It So Hard To Get Things Done?

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Life can be so frustrating. There is so much to do and so little time to do it. Everybody seems to want me to do something for them. The government wants me to file taxes, fill out forms, and spend lots of time with tedious details. My mailbox is full of ads that want me [...]

Overcoming The Resistance

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You sit down to work on your next project. It’s rather simple. All you need to do is open your word processor on your laptop and start writing. Yet something keeps you from proceeding. Something stops you from opening the lid. You look at the laptop. Nothing seems wrong. You reach out your hand, put [...]

How To Sleep Better At Night

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When we go to bed at night we usually have a day full of activities, e-mail, phone calls and appointments rattling around in our heads. If we don’t write them down or commit them to a trusted storage place, they will continue to rattle around and may cause us a restless night. In David Allen’s [...]

Focused Project Planner

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The key to completing any project or reaching any goal is to work on it in a focused and organized manner. The better the planning, the better the completed project. With that in mind, I would like to introduce the first draft of our Focused Project Planner using our F.A.S.T. system to help you reach [...]

Note Taking System

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I am a kinesthetic learner by nature and I find that if I take notes during a meeting, the hands-on activity of note taking helps me retain more of what I have learned. To make note taking even more effective, I’ve done some research into note taking systems and developed a template that helps me [...]

How To Track Delegated Items

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As a leader or project facilitator, you probably have numerous tasks that you need to delegate to others. While most items are easy to assign, it’s often difficult to track the progress of projects with multiple due dates and project participants. Michael Hyatt has a great post on his blog about tracking numerous delegated assignments. [...]