It’s time for another set of sweeping prompts. The categories for this set are Projects, Reading, Repairs, and Upgrades. As always, these categories are both specific and broad at the same time. That’s intentional. …

You may have heard the quote from Mike Litman: “People form habits and habits form futures.” If you would like more peaceful productivity in the future, consider these 10 tips to help you form your new habits — and thus, your future. Choose one habit to replace. It may be…

Well, now. The following tips are to help you get people out of your home/work space (which is counterintuitively even harder now that many more people are working from home — all at the same time). Arrange your office/work space so you don’t get or make eye contact with people…

We all know how frustrating it is to listen to a message that has been left on our voicemail but that doesn’t give us the information we need. We may re-listen to it and still have to call the person (if they even left the number clearly) to determine what…

In case you aren’t familiar with the term “pockets,” this is the term I use to name the protected places where you keep a space, a reserve, a possibility. We need pockets in many areas of our life (e.g., money, time), but have you considered that you also need pockets…

While it is impossible to teach a person to be an effective communicator in the two minutes it will take you to read this article, there are certain commonalities that effective communicators possess. Ask yourself whether you and your team think strategically about the following when you communicate: Who are…

To be able to work productively at your desk (or other workspace), you need to have easy access to those items you need…and that means getting rid of those items that you don’t. Consider these items to eliminate: Things you used to like but don’t anymore. Desks (the surface and…

Welcome back to the series about mindsweeping and here we go! For this article, you have some additional categories for sweeping, including ICOMD, which is my abbreviation for “In Case of My Demise,” along with prompts related to Planning, Organizing, + Professional and Personal Growth. …

Life can become chaotic in a hurry if we are forever shunting tasks that need to be done. Shunting is not the same as simple procrastination. To shunt a task is to become aware of it more than once, and to continue to put it off — very deliberately. …