Now is exactly the right time to post this blog. Which I thought was not the right time because there is a silly little part of me that wants to make you think I know what I am doing. Nil’s and I are working on a productivity e-book and the best insight into the e-book […]
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 […]
Managing your team with Trello
You manage a team using Trello and want to assign tasks to your team members. But how can you see what else they already have going on and whether they are overloaded or have spare capacity? How can you keep an eye on whether your team members are meeting their deadlines and what they should […]
For Me Community Is “All in”
I have been missing my blog. It went through this little phase where it became a shop front for our Trello course and that stopped me posting about my miserable little life. Except the stuff that people I care about also care about the little miserable musings I post, and these posts are the ones […]
How to track project dependencies in Trello
Project dependencies are a normal part of everyday life. Complex tasks break down into smaller tasks that depend on each other. To make an omelette, you first have to buy eggs. To build a website, you first have to discuss requirements and finish the designs. To organise an event, you have to decide on a […]
How can I give a user in Trello read-only access?
Trello is a collaboration tool and it’s easy to add new members to a Trello board. Often you don’t want those new members to have the same permissions as everybody else. Clients might need access to a project’s board to see progress but without the need to comment or move cards around. Similarly, you might want […]
How to use the Trello Calendar to meet your deadlines
How to use the Trello Calendar to meet your deadlines Introduction Perhaps you already know Trello as an easy-to-use project management tool and online to-do list. Did you know that you can also use Trello to schedule your time, set deadlines and integrate with your appointments and other calendars? Let me show you how in […]
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 […]
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 […]
3 Very Simple Things That Helped Me Build Myself Up
"You become what you think about all the time" I first read this quote when I was 13. I was scared I was set to become a porn star who smoked Marlboro Red non-stop and ate Wham Bars. In the end, the what I was actually thinking all day about was how to read and […]
The One Page #Panamapapers (With No Vaseline)
How You Are “Getting £u<ked” By Your Banks & Government – With No Vaseline Below is a lightening round up of articles and videos on the Panama Papers – I have been reading non-stop for the last couple of days so I hope I can save you time! A reminder that HMRC actually rents its offices […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
