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#166 – Gamify Your Tasks

#166 – Gamify Your Tasks

“You can’t take on any new things until you finish these tasks and that includes lunches with people”.  This week, I found myself with a couple of tasks that I just needed to get done and little tasks here and there were being presented to my left, right and centre. I...
#164 – Note it down now

#164 – Note it down now

So I’m walking down the road to my nearest train station and as I’m walking, ideas for my blog posts are popping into my head. “That would be a good topic”. I’m hurrying to catch the train so I say to myself I’ll remember it in my head. BIG MISTAKE. If I could get a...
#163 – Find Something Even Harder To Do

#163 – Find Something Even Harder To Do

Do you have something on your task list that you do not want to do?  Here’s a way you can get yourself to do it. Find something that’s even harder. I’m partly joking, partly being serious.  If you are struggling with procrastination anyway, why not use it to your...
#150 – In person > Phone > Email

#150 – In person > Phone > Email

Ok, I admit, I’m also guilty for firing off an email when I could have picked up the phone instead.  I just gave my “The Power of Networking” talk at a breakfast meeting. One of the things they had asked for in the talk was how to manage networking in an everyday...
#148 – See how far you have come

#148 – See how far you have come

My husband has a big task on his plate. That’s to build a mini weightlifting gym in our cellar. It’s a reasonably sized room so from a space perspective, it’s doable. However, having lived in the same place for more than 13 years, a lot has accumulated there. There’s...
#141 – Setting Up A System

#141 – Setting Up A System

I’ve been wanting to set up some sort of saving scheme for my little boy ever since he was born. He just turned 4. You know one of those important but not urgent tasks. Our bank must have known that people want to do such things but never get round to it. Very...