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Maddening Tabs tamed

Have you ever had the experience where you have 15 tabs open in a browser and you can't find the tabs that you just opened so you have to go to your email or your Zoom Chat to copy and paste the link to create yet another tab to be lost in the forest of tabs!!! As my project lists grew longer, I spent longer and longer time finding the right tab. The difficulty of finding the right tabs has been the pet peeve that I brought up consistently in all my Zoom meetings in the past two weeks. A rewarding experience is the tips and strategies that my different Zoom collaborators shared, summarized below: Close them promptly. Leave the only tabs open for your current project. (Good suggestion. But as I have 10 projects going on at the same time, if I close a tab, I may miss a task that I need to complete.) Pin tabs. It's maddening that I always have to find where my email and my calendar tabs are. Right-click on them in Chrome. Select  pin . Now my email is always the first tab to...

Choose WHO not HOW for effective time management

 Today, I accidentally bumped into this video  Achieve more In 1 DAY Than Others Do In 1 WEEK (Ask Who, Not How!) - YouTube  by Little Bit Better. Some ideas are refreshing. This video is a book summary of WHO NOT HOW by Dan Sullivan, who give 11 Lessons for entrepreneurs to better manage their time. The most important lesson is to ask the question of WHO. Who can solve this problem for me? Problems can be divided into two types: technical problems and adaptive problems. Find WHO for the technical problems and focus your time and energy on the adaptative problems that only you can answer.  For example, if you have a business, you need a website. This is a technical problem. Hire the WHO to solve it. On the other hand, how to grow the business is an adaptive problem. It needs your creative ideas. No one can replace you. So you will have to do it. When you go about the adaptive problems, ask yourself the seven questions as the "Impact Filter": 1. What is the project? W...