Dear Justin, How do I ask for clarification of my role and responsibilities? It’s difficult to manage my time and expectations when my responsibilities are unclear and additional duties pop up at the last minute. This leaves me with multiple projects undone and stretched too thin, and yet I’m working 10- to 18-hour days. I …
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Tired of unproductive, unclear, and ineffective meetings? In this week’s episode, Justin shares two tips you can use during your meetings to ensure your time is well spent.
Set yourself up for a successful weekly review by cleaning up your workstation. Justin says you’re much more likely to review the week when you’ve got a clean space to get clear, get organized and get things done.
Make better lists! A good list is specific, observable, and actionable. In this week’s episode, Justin says you should make the list so specific that if you handed it to a stranger, he or she would know exactly what to do.
Procrastination is a common response to feeling overwhelmed. Justin shares two words that trigger procrastination. Watch out for these two words and avoid the procrastination trap.
Tired of unproductive, unclear, and ineffective meetings? In this week’s episode, Justin shares two tips to ensure your time spent in meetings is productive and effective.
Take a step back to evaluate your current output. Are the results of your time and effort moving you forward? Are you accomplishing what you really need to accomplish? In this week’s episode Justin shows you how this type of perspective can help you achieve new levels of productivity.
You probably have a project you’ve been putting off for months. Justin’s suggestion is to shrink down the action, until you want to do it. It’s going to be more motivating, smaller, and easier to accomplish. Try it!
Dear Justin, I’ve been following your advice and keeping an inventory of all my to-dos and tasks somewhere not in my head. The problem now is how to organize them. I feel a little better now that I can see everything on a list, but I still don’t feel organized. What is the best way …
Procrastination plagues all of us. So implement next action thinking: what’s the tiniest action that will get me moving? People who get in motion, tend to stay in motion. In this episode, Justin shows you how to start acting and stop procrastinating.