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Does it sometimes happen to you that you know very well what is the right thing to do right now, but you procrastinate and do other, less valuable stuff instead? You check your e-mail, get a cup of coffee, read news on the web, watch a funny clip on YouTube, chat with a colleague - all to not to have to do what you "should". Today, Done! is about how two egg timers help you get the right thing don...

Do you feel that you're constantly lagging a little behind with what you've got to do, that you always complete what you're working with at the last moment, that deadline is always a bit too close? Today, Done! is about what to do to be one step ahead instead.

Has it ever happened to you that you have forgot after a while to do something that you earlier have decided to do once a month, every friday or twice a year? Today, Done! is about how to prevent that from happening ever again.

Do you feel that you get disrupted all the time by e-mails, your cellular, colleagues and other incoming "stuff"? Does the constant inflow of information make it hard for you to keep up a good work structure? Today, Done! is about how to take control of everything incoming instead of getting drenched by it.

"Throw away the trash and save only what you need to keep." Yes, that's obvious, but what should I do with those documents that I probably can get rid of, but not for sure? Today, Done! presents how you can throw away more, if you have a system that lets you change your mind.

Are you often in a hurry and do you find it the most difficult to come up with what to write when you sit with a blank sheet of paper in front of you, knowing that deadline is rapidly approaching? Today, Done! is about how to swiftly capture your most brilliant formulations whenever they appear, instead of forcing them while under pressure.

To keep your office tidy, to have good work structure and work systematically, isn't that an entire project in itself? Today, Done! is about whether good structure really leads to something good.

Are you so busy that you do not have time for all those tasks that are dependent on your particular key skills, the aptitudes which are why you have the job you have? Are you so fortunate that you have coworkers who could do the tasks that you spend too much time on? Today, Done! is about what and how you delegate in order to have more time for your topmost priorities.

Are you tired of your finicky, fragile, troublesome PDA and instead seek a smooth, workable system to keep track of everything you have to do? Do you have too many to-do notes in your handbag or in your pockets? Today, Done! is about how ten cards can become your best friends.

Have you, just like me, from time to time attempted to establish a new habit, and have had some trouble with succeeding? Today Done! is about how you can use your winning instinct to establish new habits.

There are some things we've got to do which, like the constant buzzing of a summer fly, annoys us so immensely that it makes us spend too much time and energy on grieving over and dwelling on them. Today Done! is about how you can get unprecedented energy from these annoyances - with a simple tool.

Do you have so many icons on your computer desktop that you do not see your children (if the wallpaper is a picture of them, I mean)? Today Done! is about how to quickly find all of your documents while the desktop still is virtually free of shortcuts.

Do you all too often experience that you are bothered or disturbed by your colleagues? Do you feel that you can't go through the hallway without getting called in to someone?s office when you have the least time for it? Today, Done! presents how to deal with the situation in a systematic way, so that everyone's needs are met.

You can easily be led to believe that the piles on the desk primarily are a problem with order; that the piles make it difficult to find the documents you are looking for when you need them. But, unfortunately the problem is more serious than that. Today, Done! is about how to unleash all the power locked up in the piles!

Do you want to work more efficiently in your everyday life, but don't know where to start? It's just too much right at the moment and it'll have to be some other time, when you have time. Today, Done! is about how to easily get going immediately. Right now.

Carefully tested tools are a prerequisite for doing a good job, no matter what profession you have. It applies to the carpenter, the lawyer, the IT consultant and it is also true for the struktör. Today, Done! presents the struktör's eight best tools (which you can use even if your title is something else).

Do you find it hard to compile tasks that were completed in a project or an assignment with the purpose of writing a report or create an invoice from the hours you spend on the project? Today, Done! presents five simple tips on how to make this process easy as pie.

Have you ever experienced losing the receipts you got during a business trip that you had to account for, that the notes you took during the conference just disappeared, or perhaps the business cards you received at the mingle party apparently were nowhere to be found? Today, Done! presents what you need to get to never have to experience that again.

When I've got many meetings in a day, I risk forgetting what we were talking about and what the next step was if I don't make a few brief notes right after the meeting and write them down as tasks in my to-do-list. But, since my time is in scarce supply, processing of the notes mustn't be time-consuming. Today, 'Done!' is about how to swiftly collect the essence of a meeting in order to make quick...

Even if you adopted a well thought-out, systematic approach for gathering information around everything you have to do and all the material you need, there is a risk that you lose both the overview and control if your work rate is hectic. Today, 'Done!' is about how you can get fully back in control even when you are incredibly busy.

Aren?t we quite a few who have decided to start making to-do-lists, got it going and after a while noticed that all the things we don?t have time to do are what?s on the list since we are actually doing the things we are trying to remember? Today, 'Done!' presents a little over ten tips to how to be successful with a to-do-list that works in the long run.

How much of your business would be visible to the naked eye if we could freeze time just for a moment? Are the things you do documented in any way, or do a few key people ?just know it?. Today, Done! presents seven reasons why visualizing your company through flowcharts is so useful.

What do you do with all that good-to-have material, your reference material, the things you need from time to time that are so simple to put in piles so it won?t get lost, and which you then never find when you need them the most, just because they are somewhere at the bottom of the piles? Today, Done! presents a way to swiftly store such documents so that they are easily retrieved later, whenever...

Do you ever experience from time to time that you are just completing task after task, and everything is spinning so fast that you can?t grasp what?s going on, what week it is and what?s coming up next month? Today, Done! presents the remedy.

It is easy to feel that you are the victim of dire circumstances when it comes to the constant flow of mail into your inbox, but it is possible to be more efficient by working structured even with this. Today, Done! presents five concrete ways in which you can work more efficiently with your incoming mail.