Archives for the 'Time Management' Category
How to Simulate Stress When Your Schedule Gets Soft [The Daily Saint]
With the school year winding down educators and their students can be tempted to take it easier than usual. You can almost hear the "T-Minus" clock ticking in the background.
While less stress is generally a good thing, a high pressure schedule can turn to mush without some performance expectations along the way. You can either [...]
You Can Do it Faster, Better, and Cheaper… so why do it at all? [DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week]
Like many of you, I struggle to get things done on time that I really need to get done. I get bogged down in the grunt work when I should be focusing on the bigger picture items. You know the drill, focus on the important but not urgent, but all the while the urgent things [...]
Birthdays & Time Management [The Daily Saint]
Thursday Bram had this interesting post over at LifeHack about being "ruthless with your time management." Two of her suggestions included the importance of planning your day and ignoring irrelevancies. Yesterday I took her advice to heart and scheduled a day off.
During my day off, I spent time with the family, talked with friends on [...]
A Personal Time-Management Self-Assessment [Ian's Messy Desk]
Posted in Productivity
As you hone and improve your productivity skills and systems, it’s a good idea to pause from time to time and assess how well you are implementing your time-management strategies.
Ask yourself the following questions:
How much control do you have over the use of your time?
How severely are you locked in to demands [...]
3 Things I’ve Learned from the Pope’s U.S. Visit [The Daily Saint]
Pope Benedict XVI is quite a guy. Even for those who are not Catholic, his profile and presence speak volumes. I’ve learned the following:
Just because you are 81 doesn’t mean you can’t make the most of your position. See Benedict’s grueling itinerary below.
Putting a problem on the table is always the best solution. Benedict [...]
An excellent read — “Urgency is poisonous†[DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week]
I just read an excellent post on 37Signals called “Urgency is poisonous”. For those already familiar with Covey’s quadrants, and my previous posting on the Time Management spreadsheet, the content contained in the post might not come as a surprise. The point being made is that urgency is not only dangerous, but unnecessary, and [...]
David Allen On The Curse Of The Eternally Urgent [7Breaths]
Nice post from David Allen over at the Huffington Post. Great quote “A crisis should be a crisis. Urgent things should be urgent. And they should be exceptional”
Seems to feed in to Covey’s ideas on Quadrant II tasks - Important, Not Urgent - work on these and the Important and Urgent tasks should arise [...]
Excellent Post on the 4HWW Workflow [DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week]
I read a fantastic post by Jed @ the Newly Rich called “Our 4HWW Workflow, Part I“. Without stealing his thunder (and idea), I encourage you to take a look at the post that diagrams a ludicrously simple, but very effective way of looking at your tasks.
Here’s a quick thumbnail of the flow. Click on [...]
Log everything you do and become more productive with RescueTime [Hack Your Day]
During my dayjob my boss recommended an awesome application called RescueTime. Basically it is a simple app residing in the system tray that monitors what you do all the time. It periodically sends this data to the RescueTime server, and by logging on to your account you can view how productive or unproductive you [...]
So, what did I actually eliminate? [DFHW: Living the 4-Hour Work Week]
I got a good comment yesterday from Jennifer @ LifeMuncher in response to yesterday’s post on more effective time management. Rather than reply as a comment (and leave it buried for everyone to find), I though it would make a good follow up post.
The question simply was: “What were some concrete examples of things [...]