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How To Slow Down To Speed Up Your Projects — How to slow down to speed up

How To Slow Down To Speed Up Your Projects

So where were we? Last week I was crying onto the page that the world did not know where it was going. Mainly, what's also going on with my projects and plans. You can read or listen to it here. This week we stopped and looked where we are and rebooted with more focus and energy. We had to slow down to speed up with our plans. Personally, I had to remind myself where I'm going in the long term to connect with what is important right now. My 'Me Too' movement Thank you to all t

How To Be More Productive (And Not Lose £191,553.45 Like Me) — mail (2)

How To Be More Productive (And Not Lose £191,553.45 Like Me)

Two Simple Productivity Tips. In this post, I'll share two things that have helped my productivity over the last few years, and they are NOT apps or gadgets. Are you always wondering where your time goes? Are you looking for an 'edge'? You can get helpful actionable direction like this in my 'Sunday Scenario email' where I document my progress, triumphs and mistakes as a freelance consultant to the coworking industry. It is super fun being a hands-on practitioner who is developing and worki

CTL ALT DEL - My 12 Week Year Reset

Where to begin? 2018 was the best year I have had for ages, but it was a year of reset, learning and working it out which was a new kind of pain for me. This blog is my way of kicking off my commitment to writing and sharing what I am working on and what I am learning in 2019. I was completely dithering around getting started so decided to eat my own dog food and ‘just do it’. Maybe you don’t know that I am part of a podcast about writing and have organised a weekly writing group in London f

How To Get Big Changes In Just 12 Weeks

How To Get Big Changes In Just 12 Weeks

Big Changes So I have been around a lot of change over the last few weeks, in those few weeks I have been looking for a way to deal with it all. Or instead, accept it and work out what to do with it, change happens all the time, and I've got better and working out how to harness the energy and indecision that comes with it. It still affects me, but I can recognise the different types of emotions and energy coming towards me and either discard them or embrace them. This time I stalled out for

Find Your Voice, My Plan For The Next 12 Months

In this post, I’m going to share with you the next 12 months of my podcast plan for my website, before I am even ready to go. Even just writing that hurts. The next 12 months are about “how to find your voice” something I have been procrastinating on for years. Leading with a “find your voice” topic is hard for me. I always think I should have 'found my voice’ before talking about how you might find yours. But both of those are wrong. Building The Plane All the people I deeply admire and

Simon Sinek, Your Phone And Deep Work

You would be right if you were thinking I leapt into the 12 Week Year with HUGE success goals, money goals and I-need-a-new-iPad-Pro goals. I ended up with less money than I started, but I carved a solid path out as a freelance writer and know what I need to do daily. Time spent on courses in Fizzle, Creative Class, Collaboration Superpowers and Rainmaker deeply helped define this. Where To Start? Have you ever thought about something so much that when the time comes you are paralysed? It'

Trello repeating tasks: How to remove them

A few week's ago, Trello announced a new card repeater power-up. The power-up allows you to set repeating tasks up so that they automatically appear in Trello when you need them. The Card Repeater function turns out to be pretty difficult to turn off. I've found a small trick that makes it much easier - read on to find out more. Trello's Card Repeater is a life changer We got very excited when the Card Repeater power-up was released - and we even wrote about it on this very blog! I've since

The End Of My First 12 Week Year

On Tuesday we start our Working Out Loud (WOL) group at our coworking space, it's also the end of my first 12 Week Year. Oddly, I feel an imposter when I write about "productivity" part of me wants to tell you 'I did the 12 Week Year now have a million dollar start-up and run a marathon daily.' Those of you who run marathons or become parents know things don't happen in the flick of a switch, so I don't know why I think you might expect me to turn life around in 12 Weeks. It's tempting to jok

My Miracle Morning

I have been working on this 'Miracle Morning' thing for ages and now I have it down to a fine art. I know the title sucks and sounds like a coked up TGI Friday's waitress called Polly Anna but it works. Every day I wake up between 5am and 6am, more often 5am and before anything can happen I start listening to an audio version of 12 Week Year, then from there I leap into the kitchen and down a pint of cold water. After that, I make a Yerba mate (Argentine tea), pop my vitamins and medication th

Trello Tip: Remove cover images to make your board easy to digest

This post is in direct response to Jo Sayer of English-language teaching company ELTJam. When we asked Jo what he wanted people to know most about Trello, this was his response: I wish people knew that you could remove the first uploaded image from being the ‘cover’ of the card. Fine if you want an image, but annoying that they’re often left there as default and make the board all hard to digest! Well, Jo - good news! We're helping you spread the word! For those not in the know: When you atta

Use timeboxing to manage multiple Trello boards

This week I'd like to talk to you about timeboxing, specifically as a technique for keeping on top of lots of Trello boards. Timeboxing is a proven productivity technique that is often overlooked in favour of to-do lists and goal planners. Trello itself gives you excellent to-do list and project management tools but without an additional timeboxing layer, you can easily get lost in an ever growing mountain of Trello cards. Read on to regain control of your life! Too many boards result in chaos

Why are you still working on unimportant stuff?

Stop right now! What are you working on? Is that actually important? Is it helping you progress your goals? Or are you just making busy time? Answering emails, shifting bundles of paper around? We are all living in an increasingly busy world. Unfortunately, time is a finite resource. There are only 24 hours in each day and there are only so many things that you can get done in those 24 hours. Stop wasting your time and pick something important to YOU to work on instead! It requires a small ch