Posts Tagged ‘scheduling’

7 Reasons to Borrow Grandma’s Egg Timer

If you’ve been looking for the edge in getting your task list done, you should consider investing in a timer. Picking up a timer stands out as the one thing I’ve done that significantly increased my productivity.
What’s so great about a piece of plastic with a couple of wires on the inside? After all, something that you can pick up at the dollar store can’t be a huge influence on… » Continue

April 29 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: Productivity, scheduling, task, timer | 12 comments»

10 Tips for Would-Be Podcasters

I started podcasting four months ago when I launched the first episode of Lifehack Live as part of Lifehack.org’s podcast series. Although I’d been listening to podcasts for a couple of years already, and had some experience behind the deck in a recording studio (granted, it was 14 years ago), I really had no idea how to produce a podcast that people would want to listen to. (Some… » Continue

April 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: podcasting, recording, scheduling, tip | 11 comments»

9 Reasons Cooking Advice Belongs on a Productivity Blog

There are plenty of obvious topics for a blog focused on making your life easier: time management tips, career advice and even a little personal finance information. But cooking advice doesn’t immediately come to mind. Considering how much time we each spend daily on eating — let alone eating healthily and cheaply — I think a little cooking advice could be very productive, and I’ve got nine good… » Continue

April 15 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: cooking, health, meal planning, nutrition, personal finance, scheduling | 12 comments»

How to Maximize Efficiency by Grouping Tasks

There’s a metaphor many of use on a daily basis that compares our brain to a car or a bicycle with gears. I need to shift gears or my head’s in the wrong gear for this indicates that the human brain, for the sake of efficiency and concentration, hones in on the task at hand to the point where it takes time to remove our concentration from the subject… » Continue

March 26 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: efficiency, organization, scheduling, tasks | 8 comments»

10 Tips For Improving Your Appointment Setting Skills

No matter what business you’re in, the odds are that you spend at least some time in appointments. Your appointments may be big group meetings, one-on-ones, or even job interviews. You may even be skipping the face-to-face aspect of meeting and be taking conference calls or using Skype. No matter what type of meeting you’ve scheduled, though, these tips can help you improve your appointment setting skills.

Set agendas ahead

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March 4 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: appointment, scheduling, time-management | 11 comments»

Prefer Paper Planners? 3 Best Calendars You’ve Never Heard Of

Professional Organizers are often called upon to help our clients choose the calendar that is best for their needs. Many times, even though people are very digitally-oriented in their work, they still prefer having a paper calendar. Paper planners provide the benefit of immediate gratification—there is no waiting to boot up or fumble around with “toothpick typing.” You can just write something in and keep going… » Continue

May 2 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: calendar, planner, planning, scheduling | 10 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»

7 Google Calendar Planning Tips

Google Calendar is my choice for organizing my schedule. I don’t like Microsoft Outlook, but only because I loathe client-side applications for non-creativity-based processes. Here are 7 ways to use Google Calendar to better schedule your life, with a really cool add-on idea to boot.

Use Monthly View for Big Ticket Planning- Plan your life and obligations with a month’s eye view to begin with. Use this level to make

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July 26 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: 7habits, firstthingsfirst, gcal, google, googlecalendar, pinkleberry, Productivity, scheduling, timemanagement, virtual+assistant | 15 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»