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I Got 99 Problems But Depression Ain’t One

Over the holidays we spent a week in Poland with our friends, I was sick for a day when we arrived and sick for a day when we got back. Something happened in Poland, I love that place and I love our friends there dearly. I am wondering if a Polish Priest did a quick exorcism while I was having a plate of Gołąbki in the cafe on the town square. Ever since Poland, I have felt great. As you know my mental health got better and better last year, these past few months I have quantum leapt! For th

Bernie's Three Best Coworking Things To Do In London Every Week

A longstanding super power of mine has been getting people together, I am pretty sure 'networking' is over or maybe the people I hang out with to assign more purpose to their time. Either way, I want to get people together and do something other than slam tequila and fend off business cards. Another factor is that my 'tribe' is a mix of people from freelancers, micro-businesses, big scary corporate jobs and everything in between, a unifying thing for them all are a lot of side projects.

3 Very Simple Things That Helped Me Build Myself Up

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How to get your team to stop using endless email threads FOREVER

We get it-- you like the idea of less email. Conversations can be concentrated within certain apps (whichever it might be--of course we like Trello ;)), but your team isn’t complying. The email threads continue. And continue. Ad nauseum. How do you get them to ADAPT, already? Fortunately there something truly simple you can do to make them stop the email nonsense forever. In our lifetime, the social skill of setting and maintaining boundaries has been all but lost. This isn’t done by enforcing

How can I add recurring cards to Trello?

Are you using Trello to organise your life, your business or a particular project? Then you've probably wanted to create cards that repeat on a regular basis. Most calendars support recurring events, so is there an equivalent in Trello? How can you create recurring cards in Trello? It's one of the questions that we get asked a lot in the Trello workshops and that also affects us in our own lives. For example: We invoice clients on a monthly basis, review our Google Analytics stats at month end

Trello Tip: See what you need to work on right now

We're going to take it back to the bare essentials with this tip. And that's to answer the age-old question: What do you need to work on right now? How can you become more productive and focus on the most important tasks in your to do list? Here's a scenario you might be familiar with: You diligently add all tasks into Trello. After a while you have so many cards on your Trello board that it becomes really difficult to know what you should be working on next. You are constantly playing catchup,

How to stay productive even when interrupted

Picture the scene... There you are, working hard to meet deadlines, ploughing through your to-do list like a pro. You're in the zone, surfing the productivity wave. When, all of a sudden, life intrudes! An email, a phone call, an angry client on your doorstep, an unannounced visitor. A few interruptions like that during the day and before you know it it's getting dark outside and you're pulling another late-nighter to get your work finished. The next day you start afresh with good intentions and

Automate Trello to send an email for a completed task

You love Trello but your clients still use email. They don't receive project notifications because they are not on the Trello board. How can you automate Trello so that it sends an email when a task has been completed? Rob, who manages a property maintenance business, recently got in touch with this very question. He runs his company very effectively with Trello but most of his clients work exclusively by email. So when Rob's contractors finish a task, like painting a room or fixing a cooker, s

Trello Tip: Make your meetings 1000 times more productive

The Win: Make your meetings, phone calls, Skype calls massively more productive. Keep track of what is decided during meetings, phone calls, Skype calls. Easily create tasks and assign them to members of your team. The Problem: During a call, it's easy to make decisions, plan the next move, come up with a brilliant strategy. Everybody agrees on the next few steps. Some may take notes. But often the details are forgotten, nobody takes action afterwards and the meeting ends up being an unproducti

Trello Tip: Keep track of lots of projects at the same time

The Win: You'll be able to keep track of all your projects at the same time, across multiple Trello boards and gives you back a feeling of control. The Pain: Once you start using Trello in earnest, you automatically end up with lots of boards. It can become difficult to keep track of what you should be doing where and to get insight into all your projects without having to switch between boards all the time. As a result you miss important tasks and become an inefficient manager. Possible solut

Retrospective: My Trello workshop at Hubud in Bali

My family and I are currently travelling in Bali and Australia for a few months. It's our last chance for a grand gesture before our son starts school back in London in September. For the last 5 weeks I've been stationed at the lovely Hubud co-working space in Ubud, Bali. If you've ever wanted to work in a hammock while monkeys are sitting in the trees above you, this is the place to go! Not to mention the amazing group of highly focussed international entrepreneurs, digital nomads and online ex

How can I notify everybody on my Trello board?

How can I message everybody on my Trello board at the same time? This question was asked by Chris Thompson of the amazing Green School in Bali at our recent Trello workshop at Hubud. He wanted to update his entire team in one go, without having to mention every team member individually. Interestingly enough I had the same problem just a week before. One of our test servers had had a software problem and needed updating - a quick message to the entire team prevented them from making changes until