Marcelo Calbucci

You know when you have a day you feel very productive, your Inbox message count goes down quite a bit, you made progress on several areas and it just feels good? Yeah, yesterday was just like that for me. I ended the day with 4 messages on my inbox. I had 5 high-priority items to take care of before the end of the day, and I did all of them.


Turned out the solution for great productivity were no meetings. But that’s not news. You know that. I know that. We all know when we have a whole day without meetings, phone calls or other distractions we will be more productive. However, I realized something even more interesting. Mondays are particular well suited for no-meeting day. You have a backlog of emails and issues that might have accumulated over the previous week or even during the weekend, and if you can knock them off your list on Monday you’ll have a much better week.

But I can’t do this alone. A meeting or a conference-call involves multiple people, so the more people who are onboard on this idea of no meetings on Monday, the better the productivity of all of us will be. Now shout on your Twitter and Facebook: “No meetings on Monday! #MeetinglessMonday”