BLOG This Year Something Was Different 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.
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 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'
BLOG 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
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BLOG 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."
BLOG 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 mission is to develop habits that will get me doing what matters. This made me identify the exit out of my real comfort zone. I thought my getting out my comfort zone was running fast, a co
BLOG 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
BLOG 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,
BLOG 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
BLOG 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
BLOG 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 have been running our daily scrum for a few months now and have been amazed by the jump in productivity we've experienced. Yes, even I, the Original Productivity Nerd have been amazed
BLOG 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 it works. Zapier to the rescue Trello and Slack alone can’t talk to each other very well - Slack will only see your Trello notifications, and that’s basically it. However, with t
