PiViva Perspectives on Action and accountability: personal development and coaching for change that stays with you.
Good weekly planning comes down to a few simple things: choosing three priorities that connect to your goals, naming the distractions you can already see coming, deciding how…
Ralph Varcoe · 4 min read
The Eisenhower Matrix sorts your tasks by importance and urgency into four boxes: Do First (important and urgent), Schedule (important but not yet urgent), Delegate (urgent but…
Ralph Varcoe · 4 min read
To stop procrastinating, it helps to make the first step so small that you'll definitely manage it, to connect the task to something you care about, to clear away distractions and…
Ralph Varcoe · 4 min read
Quick capture is the habit of getting any thought, task or idea out of your head and into a trusted inbox the moment it occurs to you, and then dealing with the whole inbox later…
Ralph Varcoe · 4 min read
Personal accountability means naming what you've committed to, putting a date on it and checking in on it regularly, ideally with someone else who knows about it. Goal-setting…
Ralph Varcoe · 4 min read
The action priority matrix sorts your tasks by how much difference they'll make and how much effort they'll take, which gives you four groups: Quick Wins, Major Projects, Fill-Ins…
Ralph Varcoe · 4 min read
The Pomodoro Technique is a way of focusing in which you work on one task for a set time, traditionally twenty-five minutes, take a short break, and then take a longer break after…
Ralph Varcoe · 4 min read