by Christi Barrett | Productivity
Confession: I generally have a messy desk. Yet I feel increasingly drawn to tidying it up before I dig into work. (Yes, the photo on my post is my actual desk. And, no, I didn’t clean it before I snapped the picture.) Maybe that’s because I subconsciously...
by Christi Barrett | Strategic, Time Management
You may have heard the phrase, “eat the frog first.” We blogged about it years ago. Essentially, the advice is to tackle the big, difficult, unappetizing or complicated project first, before you fritter time away on the easier, quicker tasks. That’s...
by Christi Barrett | Motivation
Sometimes we just can’t wait to get to work, to tackle the challenges that lie ahead. Other days, not so much. How do you boost your energy at those times when you’d prefer to hit the snooze button or linger at home over yet another cup of coffee? On a...
by Christi Barrett | Performance, Time Management
Yesterday I finally did something that I’d had on my “to-do list” for a long time. (That’s in quotes, because it isn’t so much of a to-do list as it is a “maybe-I-will-do-it-someday list.”) It felt great to finally tackle and...
by Christi Barrett | Choice
We are big fans of Jono Hey’s sketchplanations. These are small pictures that convey big ideas. This one was painfully familiar. Is it human nature to believe that our future behavior will be better than today’s? Perhaps that’s why we put off...
