Usually, I thrive on getting things done. Whether at work on in my personal life, I feel accomplished by meeting my goals. During this COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve struggled with feeling like I’m not making enough progress, I’m not doing enough. The pandemic has challenged how I balance time spent being vs. time spent doing things.…
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Dealing with ambiguity and work-related stress
We often deal with a fair amount of work-related stress. So, it shouldn’t have been surprised when one of my most read writings to date was my answer on Quora to How stressful is it to be a product manager at a tech company? This is not unique to product management. Increasingly, our responsibilities as workers…
To do your best work, stop fragmenting your attention.
Last year, I was introduced to Slack, the new way to communicate among teams. If you’ve never heard of Slack, in essence, it’s chat rooms that anyone in your company can join. But instead of calling them chat rooms, Slack calls them channels. I hated it. And not because I disliked the app, it’s actually…
Being ‘too busy’ is not productive. Prioritize and focus on what matters.
Productivity has been a topic of huge interest to me over the past few years. In fact, when having a discussion with a friend, I told her that my goal is to help people be more productive. Not happy, productive. If people are productive, my thinking went, they would be doing the things they love…
Don’t run away from discomfort at work. Clarify, remove obstacles and find purpose.
There will be times in your career in which your work won’t push you into that magical state of flow. The work that you are doing will not hit that balance of challenging without stressing you. You may be working on a project that doesn’t challenge you enough. You may be comfortably project managing a…
Most important steps to “Getting Things Done”
I read David Allen’s book, Getting Things Done, and I’m glad I did. There are many, many useful tips and a fantastic system to be learned out of that book. Here I want to share with you the most important things I learned to boost productivity and make time for the things you want to…