When the tasks waiting to be done keep mounting, the skill of prioritizing is more than essential. Today's Done! is about the urgent-important matrix; the splendid tool for knowing what to prioritize right now.

If you have a tendency to accumulate all kinds of documents and other miscellaneous items on your desk and then get distracted by them when you need to focus on a single task, this week?s Done! was as made for you. Today's Done! is about a number of concrete solutions which will help you get control over any office-desk-mess, and you will before you know it have an empty desk.

The Holidays are approaching and with them time to stop and refocus, reflect on the year that passed and start afresh in the New Year. Today's Done! is about reflection and making a fresh start when you get back to work.

Being optimistic is always a positive quality, but being positive in the sense of unrealistic in terms of for example sticking to deadlines, getting things done etc, isn't... Today's Done! is about a trick for getting even the things which continuously fall through the cracks done.

Last week I promoted the mind-map, and as if that wasn't enough, I will continue doing so this week! In today's Done!, I present you with another five ways in which to use a mind-map, and invite you to indulge in this multi-tool for personal structure.

There are many ways of getting an overview of things, but none beats the mind-map. In today's Done!, I provide you with five powerful usages of my favourite multi-tool - the mind-map.

Piles of paper everywhere, notes scattered about, Post-its on every available surface... Sound familiar? In today's Done!, the physical inbox gets promoted as what saves a messy desk from the possible chaos caused by a continuous inflow of physical material.

Why, why, why, why, why? No, it's not a lament about the current economic climate, it is a sign that something is improving. In today's Done!, mr Ishikawa and mr Toyoda teach you how to solve your business problems creatively and effectively!

Last week, we spoke about the benefit of doing immediately all those tasks that demand less than two minutes to complete. Today, Done! is about how you can apply this two-minute-rule to quickly make progress on several fronts (e.g. projects) simultaneously, even if you don't have two minutes to spare (and haven't had for quite a while).

Today's short, quick edition of Done! is about how a simple rule of thumb helps you get more done than you have ever expected.