Success, Excellence, or GTD

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For years I’ve tried to define success. It’s such a difficult word. The concept seems simple enough, but it breaks down when you try to corral it with words. I picked up a book some years back that was a collection of definitions of success from leaders all around the world. It was interesting that [...]

How To Track Delegated Tasks

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As a leader or project facilitator, you probably have numerous items that you need to delegate to others. While most items are easy to assign, it’s often difficult to track delegated tasks and the progress of projects with multiple due dates and project participants. Michael Hyatt has a great post on his blog about tracking [...]

A Simple Way To Get Things Done

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In life, I have found a simple truth. There are more things to do than I have time to do them. I must decide on my priorities. In the old days, I used to set aside an hour on a daily basis to do this. I’d make complicated lists and then strategically go through and [...]

How To Finally Get Things Done!

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I want to come clean and be real honest with you. I struggle with to-do lists, productivity programs, and time management plans. While all these tools are great, at the end of the day, I feel like a failure more often than not. I truly struggle with how to get things done. It’s not that [...]

Why Is It So Hard To Get Things Done?

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Life can be so frustrating. There is so much to do and so little time to do it. Everybody seems to want me to do something for them. The government wants me to file taxes, fill out forms, and spend lots of time with tedious details. My mailbox is full of ads that want me [...]