“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.” — Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
time management
How to Avoid Email Overload and Win at Work
Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Inc. all provide advice columns about how to avoid meeting and email overload. The articles are helpful. They often contain relevant ideas that can be easily implemented.
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How to Kill Your Projects
Writers are familiar with killing their darlings. Entrepreneurs are, too, although they might use a different terminology. Regardless, everyone has to learn how to kill a project.
Is It Important or is It Urgent?
Important: (adj.) marked by or indicative of significant worth or consequence: valuable in content or relationship
Urgent: (adj.) calling for immediate attention: pressing
Please Excuse My Not-so-Insane Work Ethic
I work hard. I have a tendency to try to do, as one of my friends says, “all the things.” She’s called me out on it; it’s the wrong approach to this life. God commands his people and his children to rest. If I’m not resting, I’m disobeying. [Read more…] about Please Excuse My Not-so-Insane Work Ethic
How to Stay Focused during a Writing Project
Some of my writing projects are intense—i.e., upwards of fifteen, if not more, hours spent researching, writing, and revising. When I face those kinds of projects, I have to focus. It’s almost like developing tunnel vision. I focus on one task, and one task alone.
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