Posts Tagged ‘Getting Things Done’
Make it Easier to Do Your Work
Make it Easier to Do Your Work (LIVE Replay) Join Coach @MorganHendrix LIVE to learn how to identify and escape the chaos that can arise when planning is interrupted by doing. We'll also leverage our brain’s "central executive" to help us prioritize and organize our workload. We'll use some practical techniques to make doing –…
Read MoreThe First 5 Files
Your First Five Files What do you see when you open Google Drive? How about the Downloads on your computer? What most of us see is a mishmash of important documents and total trash. The file we’re actively working on is surrounded by documents we don’t recognize and projects from years ago. Maybe you’re more…
Read MoreCatch Up Your Reading (in 1 Hour or Less)
Feeling Book Guilt? Had a great conversation the other day with a client. We were talking about all of the things that pile up and cause professional development guilt. We all know we need to keep growing so we don’t fall behind, but it isn’t easy to make time for all the things that…
Read MorePlanning in 3D (20 Minute Planning Tactic)
How can we plan for success? And can we do it quickly, or do we have to become “serious planner-type people” in order to plan well? Most of the Wild + Brave humans I work with feel like they aren’t exactly “great planners.” They have busy lives, and constantly-changing priorities. They need a form of…
Read MoreHard to Help
I’ve been hard to help lately. Has that ever happened to you? You don’t mean to be a martyr and hog all the hard stuff. It’s not that you’re a perfectionist (maybe), or that you have energy to spare (who does). Maybe it starts because you’re a helper. You’re not against receiving help so much…
Read MoreTools We Use (and Recommend)
We’re Not Big Affiliates One thing you’ll learn quickly about Wild + Brave is that we don’t use Amazon affiliate marketing as a part of our business model. We don’t like the idea that our recommendations and examples could become self-serving. We don’t want to profit from purchases you make for everyday items. We…
Read MoreLater Hunting
What We’ve Been Putting Off Even without pandemic pressures, “Laters” tend to pile up. Some laters are the usual… need to schedule the dentist, time to change the oil in the car, must get out to visit family members we haven’t seen in too long. But laters also include things like stopping at the farmer’s…
Read MoreDon’t Let Your Year-End Review Get Heavy
I think it’s because reflection is so valuable that we often fail to do it. In our desperate need for fresh insights, new motivation, and a sense of accomplishment, the reflection process looms larger than life. And if asking questions about our recent past begins to feel heavy, we delay doing it until we can…
Read MoreUse Your Body To Clear Your Mind
A Body-First Approach to Responding to Stress This week I’ve been thinking about the mind/body connections of stress, anxiety, and negative emotions. When emotional triggers pop up in life, one of the most effective things we can do is to give ourselves space by interrupting our physical stress response. It’s nice when we can interrupt…
Read MoreGoal Hacking to Maximize the Next 90 Days
Get it Before It’s Gone Like any natural planner, I like to keep an eye on the whirling calendar pages to make sure I don’t miss an opportunity to maximize life. Things like a year-end review, and a new-year-strategy session are treats I look forward to, making space for ritual and rigor alike. I’ll…
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