18 Nov 2022
By Magnus Fälth
Come Monday morning…

Come Monday morning…

Digital wellbeing, Habits for Office 365, Personal productivity
It's Monday again, after a, hopefully, relaxing weekend. Maybe you've time spent outdoors and in nature, having had a great opportunity to wind down. Your brain has been able to enter a relaxed state of mind. Not like during a longer vacation, but still. You can feel that you've become more attentive, to yourself and others. It's a nice feeling and it'd be nice to bring it into the work week. But come Monday morning. And you are not able to keep that mental state for long. There are tasks that have to be remembered. There are meetings that have…
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24 Nov 2021
By Magnus Fälth
My tiny habits experience this week

My tiny habits experience this week

Archive, Habits for Office 365, Tiny Habits
Professor BJ Fogg runs a free 5-day course for learning to form new habits through his own method Tiny Habits (at tinyhabits.com/join). I have taken the course several times before but this week is the first where I signed up with "recipes" for Microsoft 365.  It is quite challenging, but very interesting, to try to combine neuro psychology with technology and information management. One good thing about the free course is that you get help by a real person, a tiny habits coach, to perfect your recipes (with the end goal to establish the habit).  As I write this, I'm half way through…
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02 Jan 2020
By Magnus Fälth
How to develop robust habits for OneNote

How to develop robust habits for OneNote

Archive, Habits for Office 365
It is important to make it as easy as possible to do the behaviours. So seeing up OneNote in a right way is crucial for you to be able to success with your new habit of using OneNote for managing your notes. Yes, it requires work. And yes it requires some learning. But without it gaining the habit of using OneNote for your note taking will be so much more difficult. Adding some friction to performing the old habit And as post of this is to friction to executing the old behavior in note taking. Maybe you have taken your…
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02 Jan 2020
By Magnus Fälth
How to develop robust habits for Microsoft To-Do

How to develop robust habits for Microsoft To-Do

Archive, Habits for Office 365
If you want to get into the habit of using the app To-Do for your daily task management, here are some suggestions as to what you can do. If you haven't read our general analysis of habits for Office 365, I recommend you do that first. The advice in this post build on that page, you see. Reduce the task. One suggestion is that you aim for fulfilling the follow habit for a number days: "I will open up the To-Do app every morning and perform the "My Day" planning for one task". Do you think it feels silly to…
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30 Dec 2019
By Magnus Fälth
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How to develop robust habits for Office 365

How to develop robust habits for Office 365

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Going from not making use of a specific app of Office 365 to using it on a daily basis requires the development of new habits (either one or several). In this post I'll take a look at how you can successfully develop new habits for the various Office 365 apps. Developing habits for the digital workplace is no different from developing habits for other areas in your life. So we can use the theory and practice of habit formation proposed by experts such as BJ Fogg, James Clear and Charles Duhigg (for good resources on habit formation, see our Resource…
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