Respond to all emails within twenty-four hours, but don’t complete all emails within twenty-four hours.

Don’t fall into the common trap of having email be the thing you never intentionally make time for and expect to squeeze in around everything else. Instead, schedule a “meeting” with your inbox at least once each day.

WHERE DO ACTIONS LIVE? With the Laundry Method for managing your inbox and the List Funnel for all of your to-do’s, many people wonder how they play together. If there is something for you to do in an email you receive—where does that open loop go—in your Respond folder or on your Main List? This will depend a lot on your role or workflow but most

My tips, which can now be found on the Google Workspace YouTube channel, cover everything from creating a Google Calendar event directly from Gmail to using images in a Google Form question. They’re meant to be small, helpful hints for saving time. I get hundreds of emails from people who have been following these tips for years, telling me how muc

Let’s say you host a meeting and you’re wondering if the meeting is too long or too short, too frequent or infrequent, or if participants feel it’s a good use of time. Instead of wondering—it’s easier just to ask! Send an anonymous survey or questionnaire for any meeting you own and see what people are saying “behind the meeting’s back.” Oftentimes

Meetings Suck: Turning One of the Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable,

For one month, I will try doing VP sessions only, see how I feel, and then check back in and go from there. For one week, I will see what it’s like to leave work right at 5:00 p.m., and then see how stressed I’m feeling about my work later that night after I’ve peeled myself away. For one quarter, I’m going to make my team meeting every other week

When dropping a current project or commitment, it can help to think of it as temporary. Try saying no to something temporarily in order to see if it’s the right decision for rebalancing your energy and schedule. Use the “launch and iterate” model:

What is the worst thing that would happen if I never do this? Is there any other way for this to get done without my doing it? Is there any way for me to half-do this and move on from it?