Done!

Welcome to the 133:rd edition of Done!, about the importance of setting goals before prioritizing.

When doing something others might need to know how to do, or when providing services which require frequently answering the same type of questions, there is a simple way to make your life easier and not as redundant. In order to avoid repetitiveness and yet make it easier to both provide and receive the right information, this week Done! is about how to be ahead of yourself and answer questions be...

Having the ambition to become more structured in any way is great. But we must be careful so that we do not trip over our present structures and ways of working when we make attempts to become more organized. Done! helps you to smoothly pass one of these traps without getting caught and failing your attempt to become more organized.

Not everything can be done everywhere. Some tasks require a certain context to be done, or a certain material that you keep in one special location, or you need to visit a certain store to buy that one particular thing. This thought also extends to our work and the results of our efforts. Some things are easier to do in one location, or context, and some in another. This week, Done! provides you w...

Brainstorming, pondering, contemplating, meditating, reflecting... There are many ways to attain insights and to allow for new ideas to emerge into conscious form. But if we do not make the thoughts and ideas into something tangible, something concrete, it suddenly becomes much more difficult to realize our visions and dreams. Therefore, this week Done! provides you with some guidance in how to go...

Location-based tasks and activities can be difficult to remember. Perhaps it concerns a location you do not find yourself in too often and to then remember doing that one thing you thought of ages ago, can be tricky. But when you do, it always feel extra good if you remembered to do what you wanted or needed to do while being in a location you aren't normally in. There are a few tricks to remember...

Everyone feels reluctance towards something. Perhaps it's making that phone-call to a new client, telling your boss something important, or having what you anticipate will be an uncomfortable conversation with your spouse. But as it turns out, more often than not, our anticipated fear was just that - something we believed would occur, but which might not at all be an accurate reflection of reality...

How you define something can make a world of difference. The same goes for our structure. Making distinctions in the right way can change the way we work, how we prioritize and hence also what we achieve. This week Done! helps you differentiate between doing and structuring, and realize the consequences of doing so.

Some tasks are simply just boring. Or difficult to get started with for other reasons. And no matter what you try, you feel reluctant towards taking time to sit with it and just do it even though you know it is due soon. But there are ways to get started with even the most tedious tasks. This week's Done promotes a more embracing method to getting started doing something you feel resistance and re...

When you just cannot seem to find the document you need anywhere on your computer even though you have looked through most folders, and you are not sure what you named it and hence you can't simply search for it, you will wish that you had one and one one way of naming your files. Having a standardized way of naming our files is more important than you might think and will make it easier to find t...

Sometimes remembering something very important is more difficult than you might expect, and since it is something important, you simply cannot forget to bring it. You can try to remember it yourself, or you can make sure something remembers for you. For these occasions, there is a trick that rarely fails and that will even help you be able to relax knowing that you will not forget. This week's Don...

Making a plan is one thing. Sticking to it something entirely different. The same goes for when we have meetings - it is easy to plan and set an agenda for the meeting, but it might be very difficult to keep focused and actually discuss what you need to. This week's Done! gives you a method which will make your meetings more structured, coherent and most of all, focused and to the point.

Being able to relax is a skill in itself, especially if we lead stressful and/or busy lives. One very important condition for relaxation is the knowledge that nothing else requires our immediate attention and that we are completely free to let go and relax. This week's Done! therefore helps you to examine your structure to see if you are structured enough to be able to truly relax.

Having an emtpy desk is to prefer for several reasons. For instance, you might need more space to work on a demanding task, or perhaps just need less elements of distraction when focusing on something specific. But having an empty desk is a means to an end, and not an end in itself. It is hence more important to be able to clear it quickly and easily, rather than having it minimalistically empty a...

Being structured does not necessarily mean that you have to be rigid or inflexible in how you approach yourself, your life and your structure. For people with personalities which they believe have no room for what they associate with structure; being strict, firm or inflexible for example, it is important to emphasize that structure need not be what they fear it is, and that it is possible to pers...

Having a positive image of ourselves and our capabilities is necessary for success and well-being. It is the foundation of a healthy self-image and leads to inner peace and faith in ourselves. But not having a realistic perception of what we actually are capable of for instance doing in a certain amount of time, can have the complete opposite effect and induce stress and anxiety. If this is the ca...

The e-mail. One of the most commonly used and most efficient tools in a world where communication is expected to be instant and accurate. In other words, a terrific tool. At least when those who use it do so with efficiency in mind, that is. When this fantastic tool isn't working optimally is when the users might be unclear on how to use it properly. Then we might need some rules, or at least guid...

Being structured is in some respects simply about being conscious of where you are, where you are going, and what you can do while you are in the situation you are in. Tagging tasks by context might be familiar to many to-do-list-users, so Done! is this week about how to take this method a step further and be just slightly more efficient, but without exerting any extra effort.

When life is hectic and busy, and your work-spaces are cluttered with all kinds of material, you might find yourself in a dilemma. Should you spend your time cleaning or working? There are alternative ways of reducing the amount of stuff distracting you to doing a proper cleaning of the office. This week, Done! presents a cleaning-challange with will save you both time and energy in the long run.

As the world digitalizes and gadgets of all shapes, functions and sizes rapidly get a more prominent role in most people's lives, we can either embrace and take advantage of this progress, or choose not to. I say we should. This week, Done! provides you with eight suggestions on applications which will make your life easier.

Some things quite simply need to get done. But if they require typing in some way, shape or form, you are not alone if you keep feeling that they consume vast amounts of time. Here are the good news: This is a problem with a solution. This week Done! promotes a skill worth learning and the wonders in terms of improved efficiency it unquestionably will bring once you have learned it.

Once again, the concept of "less is more" is a saying that says it all. It can be applied in almost any situation, including the one presented in this week's Done! Done! will this week give you two surprisingly simple but effective methods to clearning out the material you never use almost without making any effort at all.

According to me, the classic saying "Less is more" couldn't be truer. Having too much of anything usually leads to some kind of imbalance, and when it comes to our daily lives, and office-spaces in particular, having too much of something eventually leads to chaos. This week's Done! is about how a single word can guide you towards increased efficiency and less frustration.

Some things are best done in cooperation with others. So one way or another, we need to meet. And in order to do so we need to be able to schedule our meeting. Preferably with ease... But even through e-mails and phone calls are perfectly good ways of communicating, they are sometimes not sufficient as smooth tools of coordinating many people and their individual agendas. But not to worry. This we...

Those of us who travel in our work are aware of the possibility that a train breaks down, that we get delayed, that the flight gets cancelled and so on. We also know the frustration that comes from being stalled and not being able to turn the situation into something positive rather than letting it get to us. Bringing material to work on is a good way to make your traveling-time more productive, b...