Ever feel like you didn’t get much done? Like you were kind of stuck in the mud most of the day? Ever said: “The work just wouldn’t get done”?I ran across Parkinson’s Law on a podcast from Cal Newport and Adam Grant. You may not know it by that name, but you probably heard the […]

This episode is about the need for, nature of, and development of thought tools. I was having a conversation with my daughter. If you’ve listened to the podcast, you know my daughter is 23 and she’s beginning her career, just having graduated college She’s trying to figure some things out. She’s confronted with some new issues

What is the role of paper as a modern productivity tool?   Is our use of paper just a habit we need to get rid of or is it something more? Is it still a useful tool, or should we be trying to break some sort of addiction to it. This is inspired by a

I talk about the three big enemies of focus and productivity. They are interruption, multitasking, and distraction. I say they are in order from easiest to deal with to hardest. (But I’m faking that a little.) The biggest pushback I get is around multitasking – people defend their ability to do it. Let’s deal with that here. What’s our

What to do if our primary tool is not really helping us? I argue that this is the case with our to-do lists. I’ll talk about why and what you can do about it. To Do Busy Right, we are fighting three enemies: interruption, multitasking, and distraction. Distraction is the most difficult to defeat. To-do list

Today, I’m going to talk about a pretty common feeling around our work and productivity… Why do I feel like I didn’t get anything done? I think we’ve all experienced this feeling. We get home (or whatever we do in the WFH culture) and our significant other asks some form of “How was your day?” Sometimes we

I’m going to talk about remote work, and this is a topic that continues to be a source of significant debate among folks out there. It’s fueled, in part, by people who are employees, who are arguing in favor of remote work. There are various arguments, and we’ll dig into it. The point I want to make

This episode is about the productivity paradox. The Productivity paradox has been around for a while, and it’s the economist’s way of saying “we don’t see the productivity value from our investment in IT”. So the question is, companies and people have invested a ton of cash in, I’ll say, desktop IT. Over the 40

I think we get confused about efficiency, and I think this leads us away from actually becoming efficient. There are two concepts that can confuse us. They disguise the challenge that we really actually face around efficiency. And I’ll talk about what all those things are, but if we’ve got the wrong mindset, it leads

This is the ‘set up’ meeting in a typical AC coaching engagement – the first of eight weekly meetings. As a coach, I’m still motivating the work that my client will have to do. I’m also explaining mindset kinds of things. There should be a lot of knowledge you can take away.   Chris’s approach