Your Time Budget — Advice on How to Balance Your Life
Now that the Great Recession has enshrined the New Frugality in the popular consciousness, it only makes sense to try taking a budgetary approach to time management. Or so it seems to me, but then...
View ArticleUse Your Transit Time
We’re all trying to find a few more hours in the day, right? I know I am. I keep scrabbling around, hoping to find the time management equivalent of a $20 bill in a coat I hadn’t worn since last...
View ArticleYou Can’t Manage Time – You Manage Your Attention
When you think about it, “time management” is a ridiculous concept. Time always has been, and will continue to be, impossible to manage. Each of us is given 24 hours a day, and that’s it. Really, the...
View ArticleYour To-Don’t List
I can appreciate the value of a to-do list, I suppose. It’s one of the basic tools of time management. You create a list of things you need to do, prioritize them, as it helps you to get the most...
View Article4 Tactics to Get Ahead in the New Year
What with the new calendar year and the slowly increasing supply of light here in Wisconsin, I’m thinking a lot about time. It seems to me that time – how we think about it and how we use it – has a...
View Article4 Tips for the Overworked Leader
This is a post I almost didn’t write. I was too busy — just kidding. No, the truth is I’ve struggled with this issue most of my career. And, in my case, I can’t really blame my organization. Many of my...
View Article10 Instant Productivity Boosters
Procrastination is not a new concept. During your career, it will grab hold of you in some form. Now, we all know the basics. We know that, in order to complete the task at hand, we need to turn our...
View ArticleUsing To-Do Lists Effectively
We have all had moments when we juggle so many tasks at once that just having to remember the time of day takes a huge amount of effort; and no matter how busy you were during the day, it feels like...
View ArticleHow To Manage Your E-mail Account
Managing emails could be the biggest challenge you face in the workplace, especially if you receive hundreds of mails. I receive up to 200 mails a day. I’ll admit, if I didn’t have the following...
View ArticleProductivity Tips for Friday Afternoons
Fridays… Friday afternoons could very well be the hardest part of the week. You start the morning all fired up for the day, then comes lunch time and everything just slows down from there. If you find...
View ArticleTime Estimates: The Key to Time Management
Time management has never been one of my strengths. I’m pretty good at planning, ever since I learned the importance of working backwards, but where I tend to fall down is in over-estimating the...
View Article8 Time Management Apps: Hassle-Free Management of Tasks and To-Dos
We all chase the tick-tock of the clock to beat deadlines, make the most of a meeting or check every box on our to-do list. Some of us make do with a piece of paper and pencil. Others try to make use...
View ArticleHow to Increase Your Productivity by Focusing on the Rate of Production of...
Many people want to increase their productivity, but do not know where to get started. Let’s start with the basics. Productivity is defined as: the rate at which goods or services having exchange value...
View Article5 Ways to Ensure Steady Progress in Your Workday
Progress is a huge motivating factor in doing one’s best work and keeping a project on the go. Even though progress often comes in dead last when managers are asked about employee motivators, use...
View ArticleScheduling Tips
Have you ever heard someone say, “I have all the time I need. I’m a master scheduler and I couldn’t possibly use my hours and minutes any more efficiently.” I haven’t. I can’t even imagine it, and, if...
View ArticleTime Management
Effective time management is one of the crucial keys to success in any business. You know those people who always seem to have plenty of time to get done what they need to? Chances are good that they...
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