Sometimes the most obvious tools are so obvious that we never end up making full use of them, Templates are one of those. But creating templates wherever you can has a huge automatization potential you really don’t want to miss out on. How do you automatize your work with templates? Now let’s take a closer …
How to Have a Meeting with Yourself
Having a meeting with yourself is like a traditional check-in meeting you would have with a manager, only more pleasant because it is you you are answering to. How do you hold a meeting by yourself? See below for each step what to consider and what meeting points you might want to include in your …
How to Set up a Knowledge Library
You can use a knowledge library, also called wiki, company-wide or you can use it just for yourself. Either way, it is a powerful tool for optimizing and automatizing work. And the best thing, you can be really lazy and still look like the most efficient and knowledgeable person in the department because of it. …
When You Have No One To Talk To.
Do you ever feel like you have no one to talk to? There is no one who is like you, who has the same problems, interests or way of looking at the world? Obviously, that’s not true, there are probably loads of people who are like you, somewhere out there in the digital world. But …
How To Clean Up Your Email Inboxes
Before sorting them out, I was the proud owner of nine email accounts. One for work, one for school, one for freelance work, one as my personal email, two for a project I was working on with a friend, one that came with an online notebook, one with an embarrassing nickname (because we all have …
Can’t Make a Connection – Why Can’t I Connect with Anyone?
Why can’t I connect with anyone? Do you ever feel like you’re running on a different frequency than the rest of the world? You can see what is going on around you and you can hear it, but you can never participate in it. It’s like all you manage to do is send out fragments …
I Suck At My Job! Feeling Completely Incompetent!
When You Live in Constant Fear of Being Fired. “I’m freaking out because I’m completely useless. I keep forgetting minor details, but so obvious ones and my co-workers think I’m a complete idiot! If I don’t improve soon I’m going to get fired.” Trying Really Hard and Still Failing. It’s ironic that the more you …