06, Dec 2021
You can’t give someone extra time, but you can help them maximize the time they have in the day with a few of these productivity gift ideas. Calendars and Planners Calendars help younger children and students understand scheduling develop long-term planning skills. Planners are ideal gifts for people who prefer… Read more
08, Nov 2021
Striving to perform at your best is an admirable goal and worthy of pursuit. Perfectionism, on the other hand, is sneaky. It makes you think you’re trying to do your best. It is helpful to examine the Law of Diminishing Returns to understand how to overcome perfectionism and be productive…. Read more
11, Oct 2021
We’ve all been through the excessive back-and-forth plethora of emails trying to find a common date and time for a group of people to meet. An email gets sent to a group of people, and everyone’s email inbox gets jammed full of the ‘Reply to All’ responses. As the meeting… Read more
07, Jun 2021
A paradigm is defined as a typical pattern of thought or way of doing things. A paradigm shift occurs when the concepts and rituals we are accustomed to, change significantly. With the COVID pandemic forcing many people to suddenly work from home, we experienced more of a paradigm earthquake. And… Read more
10, May 2021
In this digital age, we’re online almost all the time. We stare at screens and type on keyboards. There is always a new app or widget that promotes itself as “the best way to be organized and productive.” But for people like me who are “doodlers,” we feel a little… Read more
18, Jan 2021
Money and time are similar. We only have a limited amount of each, and we have to use what we have wisely. To manage our money, better financial advisors suggest we track our money spending habits. We can use this same technique and track our time spending habits in a… Read more
05, Jan 2021
I was happy to provide time management tips for 2021 in my CBC Radio On The Coast interview. Host Gloria Macarenko raised some great issues about the challenges families face when working from home and homeschooling. Gloria asked me how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our ability to manage time…. Read more
07, Dec 2020
An article in The New Yorker magazine entitled, “The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done” summarized the personal productivity industry’s growth and development. The article concludes by recognizing the limitations of personal productivity and asking if there is a more effective way to accomplish our tasks. To clarify, the… Read more
09, Nov 2020
It sounds counter-intuitive that additional work can help us do our jobs better, but I recently read a study1 about how supplementary job tasks can increase productivity. Types of Job Tasks We can define a job as a group of tasks. The core task takes up the largest percentage of… Read more
28, Sep 2020
You’ve done a great job making your to-do list work for you. Every day you’re working on your high-priority assignments. But every day, the non-urgent, lower-priority items keep accumulating on your list. It can become depressing and frustrating when these tiny tasks remain unfinished day after day and week after… Read more
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Our family engaged Linda after the initial consultation meeting, when she blew away any other competition we had also vetted, with her depth of knowledge, experience, enthusiasm and clearly strong leadership skills that she continued to exude in spades throughout the “project”.
This “project” was near and dear to us, which was sorting and clearing out our family home that had been piled up with decades of memories and belongings. Linda’s incredible skill in immediately sizing up the plan, managing a large team that she was able to quickly assemble to tackle this complex challenge was very impressive. Each day, we were able to see great progress, all due to her strong leadership and organizational skills in being able to direct and motivate every person on her team to operate at their highest level of efficiency and effectiveness. Watching her work was like taking a master class in leadership and project management skills.
She listened to us, and not only ensured that our guidelines were adhered to, but also went above and beyond to keep our best interests at heart with her vast knowledge of what items to best keep or not, and her strong network of connections – there doesn’t seem to be any service or organization that she doesn’t already have at her fingertips!
Linda and her team were such a pleasure to work with, and they literally and figuratively did all the heavy lifting to accomplish what felt like a Herculean task in a record period of time. I would not hesitate to recommend Out of Chaos to anyone – you won’t find any better professionals at the top of their craft!
— Anna Y.