I was talking to a couple of friends earlier this week and we got on the subject of struggling with a project or schedule. We all know that feeling: frustration with the lack of progress to the point of wanting to give up. Sometimes, we do give up; sometimes, we...
How to Avoid Going Off Course My father was a pilot…I don't mean he became a pilot or learned how to fly, which are also true, but that he was in his heart and soul born a pilot. I think most great* pilots are "born that way" with a love of flight that can only be...
On Twitter the other day I created a poll asking people what they found to be the most difficult part of wrangling time management. I was surprised when the winning answer (by a fair margin!) was "option paralysis." I honestly assumed that "overwhelm" would be the...
“Project management can be defined as a way of developing structure in a complex project, where the independent variables of time, cost, resources and human behavior come together.” ~ Rory Burke The problem most people run into using time management systems is...
When people see my daily to-do lists, they often point out in confusion that I’ve overbooked myself. Which is true! I do it all the time. However, most of the time when I overbook myself, it’s with the full knowledge that I simply do not have enough time or...
A long time ago I said to my friend Mitch, “That’s like putting a tutu on the dog.” It doesn’t quite mean the same thing as the old saying, “lipstick on a pig,” which suggests trying to beautify something that is intrinsically ugly. No, putting a tutu on the...
I'm super excited to launch this newsletter, as it is something I've been nibbling at for a while. As I have built the Task Mistress site over the past three months (wow, that long already???) I've thought a lot about how I want to reach out to my community of...