Tag: Time Management
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Planning Made Simple
Planning What’s a plan? “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower I recently finished reading The 12 Week Year (covered in Book Recommendations Volume I) and already find myself putting these into practice. Note: this sort of time planning is different from business planning. Let’s see if I can use the Feynman Technique to…
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Do More By Doing Less: 12 Quick Simplifiers
“Perfect is the enemy of good.” — Voltaire Let’s say you’ve been running a business for several years now and you’re feeling overwhelmed by the amount of “stuff” to do on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. What are some fast and easy ways to “simplify” things in your business and workload to make life easier?…
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The Action Priority Matrix
The basic steps for getting things done could be summed up as: I’m always looking for new ways to compartmentalize work and life. Lately, I’ve been using a simple framework referred to as the “Action Priority Matrix.” It’s a close cousin to the Eisenhower Decision Matrix which blends urgent and important tasks into categories of: do, schedule,…