Hi Lucas! If using SCRUM, I will simply carry over the same task to the next sprint (2-week period). I will usually have a checkbox on the item 'late?' and check 'yes' if its been delayed or carried over to a later sprint. this is just so I can track late patterns in the future. I personally use a combination of Notion/Clickup/MS Office to manage my work, but professionally I have had good success with SCRUM in JIRA. Though most all tools can handle light Scrumming for personally planning. Make sure you set up the time to plan, and then experiment with 1-3 tools over 1-3 sprints on free trials!

Have you ever felt like your list of things to do never ends? Do you ever ask yourself, why am I doing this? Well, you might be missing out on a basic concept of work management that’s often overlooked in our personal lives: project management.

Most working adults are used to grouping activities into projects in their professional lives. Still, it rarely comes to the forefront of our minds when looking to tackle our nonwork activities. …

I sit here on Sunday evening having emptied about half my energy tank today. I feel great; I am ready to take on Monday head-on with full steam at 5 a.m.

How do I have this feeling? By trying a new practice: using Saturday as a rest day instead of Sunday. I have found that I can increase productivity on the most important planning day of the week, and I think you can too!

How Did Sunday Become the Typical Day of Rest?

I grew up around religion, and Christianity seemed to place great importance on Sunday as a day of rest. The short story being it is the…

Getting into fitness growing up in the USA usually meant one thing: gym membership. I would never have thought that using gymnast rings as equipment to get fit. As a teenager, I followed a very traditional path to fitness, getting certified in training for heavy weight lifting. This lead to great results in high school as a bigger frame really helped out playing ice hockey. However, that routine largely faded into oblivion with college and a career. Until a few years ago when I decided to get back on track with my health and fitness.

However, when I had this…

Whether you are looking for a way to plan out your life, or run a more efficient team in your work, the Objective & Key Result (OKR) framework might be the next concept you can utilize for better results.

What is an OKR?

Setting goals and targets predate the giant corporations of today. Ever since someone wanted to be better than they were yesterday, they likely used one of the thousands of goal setting strategies available or simply made up their own.

An OKR is one of those goal setting strategies, and I have been using them both in a global business perspective as…

Are you a visual person too?

I have always known I am a visual person. If you are like me, you prefer fleshing out ideas on a whiteboard rather than a Word document. So when it came to designing my Life Operating System (LOS) a few years ago, I knew that I needed something visual 👀 to roll my life progression up into. This picture would always serve to answer the question, ‘Why do this?’.

Visualization’s (e.g. vision boards) reputation has gone back and forth from detrimental to instrumental and everywhere in between. Neil Farber, author of Blame Game, rightly points out that vision boards in…

Do you find it awkward sometimes approaching others with feedback? Is there a relationship in your life that you think could be improved? Do you dread performance reviews? Maybe looking at feedback in a more structural manner will help you take on these situations better in the future.

In both my personal and professional, I have explored the concept of feedback and its power on a community. One can see feedback cycles all the time; in change management, mentorship, performance appraisals, etc. After implementing a few feedback mechanisms with friends and work colleagues, some patterns emerged to me.

I have…

Have you ever wondered what your walls would look like if they were painted dark green? Ever wonder if a dark wood entertainment center would look good with your couch? Do you want to build a custom desk but not sure the dimensions that would be best for your office?

These are the kind of questions I ask myself when moving into a new place. After I got hooked on Grand Designs a few years ago I always wanted to make one of those animation videos for designing my dream home/farm/castle. …