At Less Doing we try to spend as little time in our email inboxes as possible. If you want to get work done, keeping your inbox open is not going to help. This does not mean that you should have [...]
We’ll get into this more in a future post, but both Ari and I lead pretty much paperless lives with the exception of the bathroom and the kitchen. For the most part, email has replaced mail, but sometimes you absolutely [...]
My friend Peter recently came to me with an interesting Less Doing problem. He is about to embark on what he is calling “The Global Lifestyle Project.” He will be packing up and moving back to his native New Zealand [...]
Fundamentals of Less Doing is a series of articles detailing how we think about productivity from a conceptual level. If you are new to Less Doing, the Fundamentals series is a great place to start. There is a hiccup that [...]
When you want to be a remote control warrior and run your business from halfway across the world, proper call routing is of the utmost importance. Simply using a voicemail transcription service or having a virtual assistant check and deal with emails [...]
My virtual assistant, Christy, who has worked with me for over a year, recently got a promotion at the outsourcing company she works for and would no longer be a virtual assistant. I immediately panicked and started figuring out how [...]
One of the nagging tasks that often comes up is follow up. When you are multi-tasking, automating, and outsourcing everything, it becomes very easy to setup a task and than completely forget about it. A perfect example of out of [...]
A few weeks ago, I realized that at the end of many days the most important thing on my to do list is still there. This is extremely frustrating. If the important things don’t get done, then you really are [...]
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