Active & Fit

The hardest part of most work isn't the middle. It's the first ten minutes. You sit down, open the file and stare at it. Where were you? What was the plan? You reread yesterday's notes, check email "just quickly," tidy a folder, and twenty minutes later you still...

A single 30-minute call at 11 a.m. doesn't cost you 30 minutes. It costs you the morning. You can't start anything big at 9:30 because the call is coming. After it ends, you need a few minutes to write notes and send the follow-up, and by then it's almost lunch. One...

Most tasks don't take too long because they're hard. They take too long because nobody decided what "done" looks like. "Work on the website" can eat a whole afternoon and still not be finished, because it was never finishable. It had no edge. When you work for...