I can confidently say that I am fairly organized, but focus doesn’t come easily to me. For years now I’ve been relying heavily (maybe solely) on the Pomodoro technique.

Last week I announced my new FREE PDF: Custom Order: 10 Questions to Kickstart Your Organizing Project With Laser Focus. There are also 10 accompanying bonus videos! Watching these is like inviting me into your home for a first consultation.

A lot of you are working from home (maybe in the kitchen) and that comes with distractions - some of the family kind. I liked my sister’s attempt to keep those at bay with this sign she shared on her Instagram.

Given that when printing my set of 2019 workout calendars I realized I was a solid year into a new tracking habit, I thought it was a good time to share again how I use these simple pages. Last January Nic and I started posting the current month’s blank calendar on the fridge to track how often we were working out.

It’s a joy and a challenge to work with a whip smart client who has tried it all and looks to me for some out-of-the-ordinary advice. I knew she and I would be working on her email last week. She didn’t want someone else to tell her to create more email folders and just reply to things on time.

My clients aren’t as interested in what’s new in the world of productivity as they are in what actually works.   The dilemma of where to focus in a world of information overload feels like a modern dilemma, though the quest for working more efficiently isn’t a new one.  I’ve been re-reading the 80 year old book Think And Grow Rich.