Estimating Without Time

Estimating Without Time

It’s really hard to estimate how longs things will take. When faced with a list of items and trying to figure out how long it will take to get through them, most of us will drastically overestimate or underestimate the time. It’s because humans are really not good at estimating time. But what if you could estimate without time?
How To Recognize and Avoid Extending Sunk Costs

How To Recognize and Avoid Extending Sunk Costs

According to Wikipedia, sunk costs are "past costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered." Usually an economic term, it also applies to other areas of our lives. Failing to recognize them means we put time and energy into something simply because you already have. That is not necessarily wise.
How To Decide What Task To Do Next

How To Decide What Task To Do Next

One thing I’ve learned over the years is that it is easier to choose between two options than it is to choose between twenty. By ranking your tasks in two different ways, you can limit your choices and make deciding what to do next easy.
Using and Creating OneNote Templates

Using and Creating OneNote Templates

Since I released my video on my OneNote work planning system, I have gotten questions about how to personalize the notebook. This video is about how to save time and effort by using templates to customize a OneNote notebook.
Do You Fall For These Time Management Lies?

Do You Fall For These Time Management Lies?

Time management is the key to make sure that you don't fritter away a precious resource on meaningless activities - at least without meaning to. Yet many people fall for time management lies, much to their detriment. Do you fall for these time management lies?
Next Actions Done Right

Next Actions Done Right

Next actions are defined as "the very next physical action required to move the situation forward" according to Getting Things Done. But this all depends on your definition of "forward".
Making Systems To Support Us

Making Systems To Support Us

The systems that help our weaknesses are really the only ones we have to try for. We have to recognize our weaknesses and find tools to help us past them. And it doesn’t matter if it is due to neurodivergence, or if it is something brought on by stress, overwhelm and overextension.
Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress

Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress

There's an old wives' tale that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out, but if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it to boiling the frog will allow himself to be boiled to death.

The "temperature" of our lives is our stress level, and we react the same way.