Put It On the Calendar

... and celebrate them every few weeks.

The maximum time between these retrospectives should be three weeks. Any longer and people will start to forget the realities of the situation. Newer teams that are still finding their groove should schedule more frequent meetings.

The hardest part of a writer's job is sitting down to do the work. Writing happens in three phases.

1. Beginning: You have to decide what you're going to write and how you're going to write it.
2. Staying motivated: You will face self-doubt and ov...

The matrix is a simple four-quadrant box that answers that helps you separate “urgent” tasks from “important” ones:

• Urgent and Important: Do these tasks as soon as possible
• Important, but not urgent: Decide when you’ll do these and schedule it
• Ur...