

Trying to maintain a work calendar in Microsoft and a personal calendar in Google is only going to end up causing nothing but confusion and conflict. For example, if your company lives and works in the Microsoft Office environment, then you really should be using Microsoft Calendar for all your calendar needs.

How and where you work will probably determine which calendar suites you best. That could be either Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Microsoft Calendar.

These three things are:Ģ One todo list manager (digital or paper)ģ One reference materials holder.

And of those three things you only need one each of them. In today’s digital world you only need three things. And once you stop trusting your system, it very soon stops working. The more complex your system, the more likely you are to spend too much time fiddling with it, searching for important documents and ultimately losing all trust in it. The simpler your system, the more likely you are to stick with it, trust it and make a success of it. Over the many years I have been involved in personal productivity systems, I have learned one very important thing. The system will become complex and unwieldy and eventually you will no longer trust your system and that leads to a falling off the wagon. Maintaining your system in this way is a guaranteed way of running in to overwhelm, procrastination and confusion. I frequently see people trying to maintain comprehensive todo lists and reference material management systems in a simple todo list manager, other times I see people keeping project support materials all over the place, some in Dropbox, some in Evernote and others in Microsoft OneNote. That is the problem of having far too many tools and an unclear method of using those tools. Often when I meet with clients, I come across a problem I have seen many times.
