Your Endless ‘Best-in-Class’ Productivity Tools Aren’t Helping Achieve Your Goals: Here’s the Only Solution That Will
You’re running four productivity tools: Todoist for tasks. Notion for notes. Google Calendar for meetings. Asana for projects. Each one is best in class. Each one cost you hours to set up. Each one promised to transform your productivity. Yet somehow, you’re more overwhelmed than ever. After coaching thousands of busy professionals for decades, I’ve […]
Willpower Is a Lie: Build This Productivity System Once. Achieve Every Goal Forever.
Every January, the productivity industry sells you the same lie: you need more willpower, better discipline, stronger consistency. You buy the books, download the apps, commit to the routines. By February, you’re back where you started, convinced the problem is you. It’s not. Willpower, consistency, and discipline aren’t prerequisites for achieving your goals. They’re byproducts […]
Completing 47 Tasks Advanced Zero Strategic Goals: The Productivity System That Fixes This Forever
You sat in that strategy meeting three months ago. Crystal clear vision. Specific quarterly goals. Everyone aligned and energized. Now it’s Friday afternoon. You review the week: Forty-three tasks completed. Three client calls. Two proposals delivered. Five meetings. Four urgent issues resolved. You open the strategic planning document from that meeting. Try to connect what […]
How to Access Any Information You’ve Ever Created in 3 Seconds or Less
The executive spending two hours finding a document and the executive who just recreates it are both losing. One loses time now, one loses time repeatedly. Let me break this down. The first executive knows the document exists. He saw it last month. It had exactly the information he needs. But now? It’s buried somewhere […]
Your Team Doesn’t Need Better People: They Need This Productivity System Connecting Strategy to Daily Work
“Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.” — Martin Luther King Jr. This quote cuts straight to a truth most business leaders miss: good intentions without organization lose to bad intentions with structure. Every single time. Think about it for a moment. The most destructive forces in […]
Why Does Your Knowledge Feel Useless When You Need It Most?
Monday morning hit me like it always does when things pile up. That familiar sense of looking at an avalanche. The weight of everything demanding my attention. The sheer volume of incomplete work staring back at me. After more than 30 years designing and implementing productivity systems, consulting for PwC and Accenture, co-founding the Paperless […]
The Seven Tactics That Protect Focus When Chaos Hits
Recently, one of our Inner Circle Program members asked a question that cuts straight to the heart of what every busy professional struggles with: “I’d love to read a more in-depth article of yours on how to generate focus and momentum throughout the day. Multitasking, chats, calls, notifications and meetings are a big problem. Even […]
The Time Mastery Secret: Why the Eisenhower Matrix Fails (And How to Make It Work Anyway)
Most people grow up chasing money. I grew up chasing time. I still remember hearing “Time is money” for the first time as a kid. Money was easy to understand. You could touch it. Count it. Trade it. Time? Time was strange. Invisible. Mysterious. And I loved it. That’s where the obsession began. When I […]
Habits Don’t Work Without This (And No One Tells You)
During a recent exchange in our private community at the Paperless Movement®, where members actively implement the ICOR® methodology in their businesses and own lives, someone asked a question that revealed a concept professionals consistently struggle with: “Where do habits fit into ICOR®? You talk about workstreams and routines, but I don’t see habits defined […]
How to Run Personal Projects Without Overloading Your Already Complicated Life
For decades, I chased the perfect productivity system. I tried every project management tool on the market. I tested countless methodologies. I built complex workflows that promised to solve all my organizational challenges. And I failed. Repeatedly. Each new productivity system worked for a week or two before crumbling under its own complexity and due […]
