I dread this time of year, I was bracing myself to plunge back into a God-forsaken pit of despair and depression and it never arrived.
Every day I have woken up and double checked I am in the right life, right family and right blog.
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 […]
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 […]
Bernie’s Newswire – Where I Went Wrong This Week
You Can’t Build A Reputation On What You Are Going To Do – Henry Ford Ok, I am about to enter week seven of my 12 Week Year and the needle is certainly moving more and more each week. Think about it how many books and programs have you bought and ready that have actually given […]
What Do You Wish Other People Knew About #Trello?
The best part about Trello is how it is a blank canvas and you can do what you want, it took us a while to appreciate that, so with this post and the workshops we run in our coworking space we are out to help people “find their Trello voice.”
Keep Going: Building Daily Habits & Scrum
Keep Going These days I am beyond the horror, drama, darkness of depression and I have dived fully into never getting there again. As a reader of this blog or my personal weekly email, you will have watched this unfold with both the joy and the crap. Habits and Comfort Zones My “deliberate practice” mega […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Personal Scrum Quickstart Guide
Greetings, fellow humans! It is I, Emily Breder, returned after a long sabbatical from Bernie’s blog to give you the how-to you’ve been waiting for: how to take the most popular of Agile methods, Scrum, and apply it to your everyday work without a software development team, or even a software project. Bernie and I […]
How to: Create Trello cards from Slack
We recently wrote a blog post on How to integrate Trello and Slack. The stand-alone integration is fairly simple, and the question came up whether you could create a Trello card from inside a Slack channel conversation. It turns out the answer is YES, although it’s not exactly straightforward. Read on to find out how […]
How to: Integrate Trello with Slack
We are often asked: “Can I integrate Trello with Slack”? The answer is a resounding YES and we’ll show you how to do it in a few easy steps.
How to: Connect Trello to the Sunrise Calendar
Trello is well known for its ease of use as an online project management tool. We recently wrote about how easy it is to set up the Trello calendar to manage your weekly and monthly work schedule. You can also integrate your Trello calendar with Google Calendar for a fairly basic read-only setup. The good news is […]
How to: Integrate Trello with Google Calendar
There are 2 online tools that I use the most – Trello, for online project, business and life management, and Google Calendar, to schedule meetings and keep track of deadlines. Perhaps you work in a similar way. Let me show you how you can connect the Trello calendar to your Google Calendar, so that Trello […]
