Ever look up at the clock at the end of the day and wonder where the time went? Do you freak out because something you needed to get done fell through the cracks? Start your day with a list! If you work in a fast-paced environment with lots of demands on your time, give yourself time before you jump into the day to organize yourself.

Ever feel like you need a personal assistant to help organize your calendar? Most of us have to go it alone in the wild west of scheduling (and some of us even get to schedule for other people, too), but there are some tools in Google Calendar that can come in handy. One of my favorite new discoveries is the Appointment Slots feature.

It happens almost every day. Your boss wants to meet about a new project, your sister wants to grab lunch, and your work team wants to have a group meeting about budgeting. Everyone sends email text with suggested dates and times and it's on you to balance the calendar, manually checking dates and arranging the logistics.

If you’re like most people, and especially like most managers, you probably get interrupted through the day by people who want “just one minute to ask you something.” While in general you want to be accessible, if you’re constantly being interrupted and it’s disrupting your ability to focus on important projects, you might need to find a strategy to carve out some distraction-free time. Especially in advocacy and campaigns, there’s always something popping up that can distract

Breaking up your big goals into smaller pieces and setting deadlines along the way is a great way of keeping yourself on track. But a deadline that exists only in your head is easy to ignore or forget. A few weeks back, I advised you to use the power of peer pressure to help stay on task and meet your self-imposed deadlines. This week, I have another tip: Schedule time to talk about what you’re working on. This has two big benefits:

If you’re like me, you’re at your most productive under the pressure of a deadline. Setting smaller deadlines in advance of a drop-dead completion date is a good idea in theory, but in practice a deadline that only exists in your head can be easily ignored in favor of more pressing issues (like watching the game or looking up pictures of cats on the internet).Whether you're setting a goal for how many sections of a report you'll complete each week, how many GOTV staging locations you'll