Setting Priorities: When everything feels important
Is your desk or life messy because everything feels important? Do you spend time whatever takes your fancy, not your highest priority?
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Marie Jones
- 5 min
How to be Consistent When Consistency is Vital
Consistency sucks, but relationships rely on us to be reliable and predictable. Follow these steps to be consistent when it's important.
Marie Jones
- 7 min
I Used the Pomodoro® Timer and Here's What Happened
What's hardest for you? Getting started or focusing on a single task? Cycles of focus and rest can be helpful for both of those barriers.
Marie Jones
- 5 min
5 Ways to Get to the Office on Time After a Year+ of Working at Home
The other day, I worked with a client about her upcoming return to the office and she worried about being late. These 5 strategies...
Marie Jones
- 4 min
Delegation as Life Skill (Or, How to Clean House While Sitting on Your A**)
I am on my screened porch, watching the hummingbirds, but my house will be clean by the end of the day. How is this possible? Delegation.
Marie Jones
- 3 min
Embracing Messy Imperfection
Are you paralyzed by perfectionism? Messy imperfection supports flexibility and adaptability. Life is a laboratory; we learn from mistakes
Marie Jones
- 9 min
15+ Tools for Your Motivational Toolbox: Tips and Tricks to Overcome Barriers to Action
How do you find the motivation to do what needs to be done? Every human being has times when motivation is difficult. Some of us have a hard
Marie Jones
- 6 min
The Reflective Spiral of Personal Growth
Reflective practice helps you make better choices and move your life in the direction you want it to go.
Marie Jones
- 6 min
Reframing Deadlines as Finish Lines
What would happen if we started thinking of deadlines differently? You don't really want to die when you finish that project, do you?
Marie Jones
- 5 min
The Somewhat Weekly Review: Vital Element of Messy Organization
Part reflection, part planning, the weekly review is a core practice that can help you stay on track and clear your mind.
Marie Jones
- 5 min
Eight Ways to Double Your Time
When it comes to chips and dip, double-dipping is gross. But I’m no George Costanza, so my idea of double-dipping is a time management trick
Marie Jones
- 7 min
Introducing the Messy Desk Journal: No foolish consistency
For years, I sought a perfect system that I can consistently maintain to keep my life in order--in time, housekeeping, and thought...
Marie Jones
- 4 min
Be Productive Like a Sloth
I met some sloths last year. Most were asleep, but I was lucky enough to catch one walking veerrrry slooowwwlllyyy on the ground.
Marie Jones
- 4 min
Resilient Scheduling: Planning for the Unplanned
Last Saturday was a rare day in my worklife. I completed everything on my daily "to do" list and had time to start on other waiting projects
Marie Jones
- 1 min
Messy Desk Rules
Every person is unique. No solution is universal. Make it easy. Lean into your strengths. Don't waste time on unimportant junk.
Marie Jones
- 10 min
Delegation: Key Leadership Skill
I recently heard from a friend--a brilliant, highly skilled, and charismatic leader--who said that she "stinks at delegating."