Have you ever wanted to learn something new? Have you ever been frustrated by the slow progress of trial and error in a new endeavor? Or have ever been looking for shortcuts to make something work much faster? Then this is for you. What is modeling? Modeling basically means taking someone (or something) as a […]
Have you ever consciously asked yourself… How much time per week do you spend on Facebook? What percentage of the content on Facebook is really relevant to your life – meaning it makes you happy, is informative or brings you interesting updates from people you care about? How happy does checking Facebook make you? When […]
One of the things I see people (and myself!) struggling with most consistently is email. Particularly, due to the flood of emails many professional receive each day, they spend all day in their inbox: sorting, reading, trying to figure out to-dos, processing, reading new mails that arrive in between, answering, reading new emails, etc. This […]
Whenever I onboard a new employee, there is a document that I walk them through. It is called “Meeting the expectations of Johannes”. This is a process that I learnt when I was a management consultant and it has served me exceptionally well since. Why does it work so well? Because it externalizes something that […]
I have previously written about getting your most important work done by creating extra time in your day or focusing on your most important tasks. But as we all know, reality is sometimes hard to bend to your will. This week’s post is inspired by a reader question that I got recently. While she is […]
Are you stressed about your to-dos and projects? Do you constantly think about all the different things you should be doing? Does your mind make you think about tasks that you really should not or cannot be doing right now but you have to think about them anyway? If yes, you are probably making one […]
Is there a thing in your life that you really want to spend more time on but you don’t? Like working on a business idea on the side, picking up that forgotten hobby of yours, working out, or spending more quality time with your family? Let me guess: the problem is that you just don’t […]
Have you ever set a New Year’s resolution and failed? If you are like 90% of the people, you have. Isn’t it frustrating? New Year’s resolutions are all about building new habits, and new habits are hard. Habits are rituals and routines that we have often built up over many years, and all of a […]
Do you feel like you are not getting the important things done in your day? This needs to stop! Few feelings are better than those of getting something really important done and out of the way and moving closer to your goals. Few feelings are worse than those of time slipping through your hands while […]
I love to listen to podcasts. If you don’t listen to podcasts yet, try the podcasting app on your iPhone or the Stitcher app (which has a much more user friendly interface than the app by Apple). I usually listen to podcasts on my morning runs and during idle time, such as walking to work, […]
