I wrote awhile back about how to decide what to put on your Calendar versus what to add to your To-Do List. Now it seems about time for a pop quiz to test the systems. As a finalist judge for Teach for America’s Annual Social Innovation award, I recently received a...
We met Reshma last July when she agreed to share all the amazing ways she uses Outlook Tasks. But no tool works without a set of habits to accompany it, so let me now unveil Reshma’s Repeatedly Do Routine. Her checklist is what keeps everything moving. And who doesn’t...
Sometimes I get unfairly pegged as a paper-gal. I actually write about digital tools all the time, like here and here and here and here. And I even profiled Sarah’s fully digital Together Leader system here. But it’s true that I have yet to feature a 100% digital...
I’ve been grappling with this issue for quite some time. In the battle between your Calendar and your To-Do list, who wins? Gurus like David Allen usually land in the “list camp,” whereas folks from the “calendar camp,” like Stephen Covey, tell you to start with...
My old friend and colleague, Elissa Kim, was recently kind enough to let me interview her for The Together Leader. As I prepared for our conversation by poking around in her Outlook calendar (I’m nothing if not investigative!), I noticed she’d scheduled a daily...
