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- Compare EV charging cost before you buy
- Before buying an electric car, write down your questions
- Use "belt and suspenders" communication
- Four pillars of great project management
- Count your active projects
- Have the weekly review project show up a day or two early (Thursday)...
- Keep a "Quit 5 Things" list all year
- Put a running acronym list at the top of the project doc.
- Never give dates when you set expectations for your own work
- If you stop at 50 minutes, spend the last 10 adding value
- When a project needs a product you have not used, tell the client up...
- Plan projects weekly
- Build trust across three triangles
- Flag any opportunity where scoping time passes 5% of its value.
- Use more than one word in a subject and think who, what, where,...
- Make next week's plan concrete with a clear bar, such as at least 32...
- For highly committed calendar items, also capture a task so...
- Line up about 20 to 40 percent more work than your hours target for...
- Treat roles as dynamic
- Pick your number
- Find your limit by honest check-ins each week
- Don't put review items in the weekly review if they could be scheduled
- Measure your stress against your project and next-action counts, the...
- In every handoff ask
- GTD 3.0
- After 20 years of GTD the lessons are time, priority and people, not...
- Do the "no thinking" work first
- Day-specific actions on the calendar have no context, no link to a...
- Work is done alone
- Make remote work accountable (work needs an owner, timeliness and...
- Standardize the Next Action field on opportunities
- Limit yourself to about 10 active websites and tier them by revenue...
- Turn your 'cants' into a 'can' list.
- Read the sales document from the bottom up like a story, noting...
- After training users, hold an "open session" two weeks later where...
- For a customer webinar, try an interview-style fireside chat where...
- Set a reminder task at 80 percent of total hours so overruns are...
- Email signatures are like swear words
- Stalling on a big task? Break it into thresholds (e.g. inbox under...
- Check the hidden inboxes
- Before vacation, defer next actions out to after you return, but...
- Put boundaries on weekly-review sweeps (for example three weeks of...
- Keep each day's list to about 20 items and skip high/medium/low...
- When you defer something, pick a random day in the month, not the...
- Picture each day as 24 diamonds
- Check Monday's calendar on Thursday so anything early Monday morning...
- Define procrastination as not doing something and feeling bad about it
- Keep a list of every address you have lived at
- Declutter clothes by writing how many you need before opening the...
- To go paperless, start with a public commitment (for example "50%...
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