Posts Tagged ‘schedule’

8 Ways to Be Ruthless With Your Time

There are a million and one demands on your time and, whether or not those demands are legitimate, it’s hard to carve out the time necessary to take care of your responsibilities. You have to be ruthless with your time — you have to take care of important tasks before handling issues that just aren’t crucial. You have to set up your own rules for deciding how to spend… » Continue

April 24 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: procrastinate, schedule, time-management | 11 comments»

12 Hours to Better Time Management

Work. Kids. School. Sports. Second job. Partner’s job. The next great American novel. Your knitting circle. Remodeling the guest bathroom. Taking your car in for its 30,000 mile tune-up. An on and on and on — it seems like we have things to do in abundance. What we don’t ever seem to have enough of is time.

I think we all know what we should do, but the prospect… » Continue

February 20 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: calendar, password, schedule, time, time-management, tool, web-app | 36 comments»

Do Someday Tasks Some Day

We all have those tasks and projects that we plan on doing ’someday’. The problem is that someday isn’t very specific. Will you ever do these things? Someday, maybe; but how about we schedule these one day?

Don’t worry about how silly or trivial they might sound. Don’t think about how ‘unimportant’ they are. If you genuinely want to do them they are neither silly, trivial or unimportant. Instead start… » Continue

October 19 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: gtd, schedule | 2 comments»

How to raise the odds that it’s going to be a fantastic day

Got that Monday (and every other work-day) morning feeling? Here’s how to begin each new day as if you can’t wait to get started.

This is my 100th article for Lifehack.org. That set my mind thinking about beginnings and endings. Last week, I wrote about how to leave work gracefully, so it seems natural to follow that by considering how to start your working day on a truly positive… » Continue

September 10 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: Lifestyle, morning, schedule, stress | 30 comments»

Holding It All Together On the Go

This week marks the beginning of the Fall semester for me, and as usual, I have a crazy schedule. I thought I might share some of the things I do to manage the frenzy that the life of an adjunct can be, in the hopes that it might give you some ideas about how to deal with the craziness of your own schedule.

First, some background. I’m an adjunct… » Continue

August 31 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: adjunct, computer, mobility, office, Productivity, routine, schedule, working | 14 comments»

21 Ways to Add More Hours to the Day

A twenty five hour day isn’t coming any time soon. As long as your feet stay planted on the ground here, twenty four is all you’re going to get. However, with a bit of skill you can squeeze out a couple more hours to add to your day. Here’s how:

Step One: Remove Big Chunks

The first step to reclaiming more time from your… » Continue

August 7 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: focus, Productivity, schedule, time | 59 comments»

Keep A Light Schedule For Productivity

Actually, Marc Andreessen at pmarca.com suggests that eliminating your commitment to scheduling all together is the key.

This idea comes from a wonderful book called A Perfect Mess, which explains how not keeping a schedule has been key to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s success as a movie star, politician, and businessman over the last 20 years.

Want to meet with Arnold? Sure, drop on by. He’ll see you if he can. But you… » Continue

June 22 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: schedule, timemanagement | 7 comments»

HiTask is My New Favorite Organizer

I have been between organizing systems for a little while. I’ve tried a bunch of things: Google Calendar, Stickies (the built in Mac program that makes little Post-It notes), and a few easily forgettable PIM software apps. I’ve used Backpack in the past, and a few of the various To-Do software products that so many readers of Lifehack.org write or support.

But my new favorite is HiTask.

First, it’s clean and… » Continue

March 31 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: calendar, gtd, hitask, schedule, software, web2.0 | 16 comments»

Freelance Blogging: Why You Should Schedule

The best part of becoming a ‘full-time’ freelance blog writer is the freedom of time. Instead of my 9-5 Mon-Fri working week I can work when I want for as long as I want.

This is great in theory, yet anyone who has turned to working from home has found this is fraught with pitfalls.

Why You Must Have A Schedule

When you have all the time in the world for work… » Continue

March 20 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, freelance, schedule, writing | 7 comments»

Schedule Play Before Work

The boys at Trizle make an excellent point that would definitely ring true amongst the 30 years and under crowd.

They put together two examples for completing a project. One puts work first over a seven day period, the other makes schedules of ‘play’, concerts and the like, while working in between.
Instead of driving your entire heart, body, and soul into every minute of your working hours, you instead went… » Continue

March 15 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: schedule, scheduling, timemanagement | 4 comments»

Dumbest Hack Ever- Use Your Calendar

Ever since switching tasks and to-dos off of my calendar and into a GTD tool of choice, I’ve noticed my productivity is actually going DOWN. Why? Because I’ve learned that without at least SOME scheduling, I don’t match the right contexts to the tasks still at hand.

Scheduling Context Zones

Now, maybe GTD the book has this in there, and I’ve forgotten it over time. Remember, I’m more a disciple… » Continue

March 14 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: 7habits, calendar, chrisbrogan, covey, gtd, planning, schedule | 7 comments»

26 Tips to Keep Your Computer Up and Functioning

Open Loops blogger Bert Webb and I often collaborate on projects, include guesting at each others functions. At a recent presentation I did on “Effective Workplace Communication” the laptop I was using to run my PowerPoint presentation became possessed by evil juju and began a spontaneous series of automated functions ending in a system shutdown. Bert and I had different theories about why this occurred at this… » Continue

January 30 2007 | By Reginald | Tagged: effectiveness, maintain, schedule, software, tips | 66 comments»

Bank Robbery!

There’s been a robbery, and you’re involved!

Scene of the Crime

For those two hours last night that you watched television, someone else stole that time and applied it to writing a little bit more on their new, completely obvious, “I had that idea already” book, and they’re going to sell it for $200,000 up front.

When you surfed RSS feeds an extra hour looking for the perfect productivity tip, someone snuck in… » Continue

July 3 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, hacks, Lifehack, planner, planning, Productivity, schedule, scheduling, time, timemanagement | 14 comments»

Appointment bookends: Use ‘em.

I have some very simple advice for you this week which can revolutionize your workweek productivity.

It describes a habit I had fallen into out of sheer necessity when I was a corporate VP in operations, finding that appointments could easily and completely dominate my entire day if I allowed them to. My calendar was a parade of interviews, employee counseling, staff meetings, vendor appointments, and customer meet-and-greets, all those same… » Continue

June 15 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: appointments, calendar, Productivity, schedule, workstyle | 7 comments»

Improve Your Life By Following A Schedule

Some people may go on and on about how schedules or routines don’t allow for creativity or spontaneity - and that may certainly be true in some circumstances. However in overall situations, people who don’t follow a schedule are prone to miss appointments, procrastinate, live or work in an disorganized environment, and haphazardly complete assignments. It’s a complete formula for disaster. If you want to succeed however, you must understand… » Continue

February 24 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: Productivity, schedule | 4 comments»

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