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Setting Priorities: When everything feels important
Marie Jones
  • 6 min

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?
How to be Consistent When Consistency is Vital
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.
I Used the Pomodoro® Timer and Here's What Happened
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.
5 Ways to Get to the Office on Time After a Year+ of Working at Home
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...
Delegation as Life Skill (Or, How to Clean House While Sitting on Your A**)
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.
Embracing Messy Imperfection
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
15+ Tools for Your Motivational Toolbox: Tips and Tricks to Overcome Barriers to Action
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
The Reflective Spiral of Personal Growth
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.
Reframing Deadlines as Finish Lines
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?
The Somewhat Weekly Review: Vital Element of Messy Organization
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.
Eight Ways to Double Your Time
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
Introducing the Messy Desk Journal: No foolish consistency
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...
Be Productive Like a Sloth
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.
Resilient Scheduling: Planning for the Unplanned
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.
Delegation: Key Leadership Skill
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."
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