Posts Tagged ‘timemanagement’

How to Survive as the Family Tech Support Guy (or Gal)

One of the most insidious pressures on tech-savvy people these days is the seemingly constant pressure to provide quick, top-quality computer and web support — to our families. If you happen to do web design, system administration, programming, or other vaguely computer-related work as part of your job, the pressure is magnified all the more.

It’s work we do out of love, and usually because we want our family… » Continue

October 1 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: client, computer, family, techsupport, timemanagement | 67 comments»

Who Am I Today? The Importance of Roles

If you’re anything like me, life keeps you pretty busy. Sometimes — more often than I’d like, actually — it’s hard just to keep straight what day it is, let alone where I’m supposed to be and what I’m supposed to be doing.

Keeping track of the various roles I play helps keep my head in order and prevent that feeling of being torn into a thousand… » Continue

September 17 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: balance, goal, goalsetting, life, role, timemanagement, work | 4 comments»

Try A Four Day Work Week

It’s nothing new, but how would your life change if you took an extra day off work every week? If you were in a position to do so, why wouldn’t you?

And then it hit me: there will always be more to do. Working more won’t change that. In fact, working more is actually counter-productive. I was starting work everyday at 5:30 AM and working till 10:00 PM, but… » Continue

September 12 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: timemanagement | 11 comments»

Make Your Own Time At Work

When you get back to work tomorrow, endeavour to take control of your time. Not just in that time-management, productivity, no-procrastination kind of way. Let’s be selfish with our time.

Consider blocking your own calendar for meetings with yourself. I know many people & teams that do this just to create some protected calendar time for processing email at the beginning and end of day. A good guideline… » Continue

September 3 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: timemanagement, work-life | 2 comments»

How To Audit Your Time

Where does the time go? In whatever working circumstance you are in, time management can become an issue. The key to even coming close to managing your time the way you really want is defining exactly where your time ends up.

Enter time auditing. This is the simple activity of tracking where you spend your time. Whether you only track your working hours, or your entire day, this can prove… » Continue

August 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: timemanagement | 4 comments»

Find Free Dates With An Iteration List

Trying to organize a day where everyone is available? A work meeting or drinks with your enormous entourage; it can be difficult to find that one day when we’re all free. In comes the Iteration List.

This is a very simple, bare-bones, text-based calendar that allows each person to edit in their free and not-free days. Forward this one through everyone’s emails and you’ll have that special day set in a… » Continue

July 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: timemanagement | 5 comments»

Are You Creating A Balance?

DailyPlanIt has put together a few interesting links to articles trying to answer this question. Where is your time going and is it balanced the way you want?

This chart, which comes from the American Time Use Survey 2006 by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, shows where time is going for many Americans. Is this something like your day? What would you like to change?

I think there are… » Continue

July 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: timemanagement | 6 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»

How To Use Deadlines

I’ve always found deadlines to be strangely helpful when needing to come up with new ideas and content. This would definitely fit into what Scott H Young calls the Push.

What he’s established are the misuses of deadlines, as well as when to use deadlines for completing projects.

Attributes of a Good Deadline

Objective - Have you reached your goal? If the answer can’t be answered with either yes or no, you

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June 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: deadline, timemanagement | 4 comments»

Develop Routines At Home

If you’re trying to do anything productively a system, and at some stage a routine, should be set. This is important for everything working from home or elsewhere.

When you’re home all day and don’t have routines in place your day may become a shamble with nothing getting done properly. Likewise, if you return home after work to a list of jobs and no order or routine, it may… » Continue

June 18 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: routine, timemanagement | 2 comments»

3 Ways To Invest In Time

They say time is money, but really, time is more important than money. Time can make you money, and well invested time can get you a whole lot more.

PickTheBrain.com looks at three ways that make investment in time work. It probably comes down to common sense, but how many of us actually do this stuff? Remember the last time you actually wasted time?

Many people think their time isn’t valuable… » Continue

June 11 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: investment, timemanagement | 2 comments»

Results Only Work Environment

While reading an article at NYTimes.com called Time Wasted? Perhaps It’s Well Spent, I came across an interesting concept.

First of all, the post is about how time is spent at work. With the average workday comprising of a reported 1.5 hours of actual work, Lisa Belkin asks the question, ‘Where does the time go?’

The big idea is that, like athletes, people work better in short bursts rather than long… » Continue

June 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: time-management, timemanagement | 6 comments»

8 Ways To Save Time As The Office

Stuart Levine at MSNBC has some tips on getting more out of your working day. Time burglars beware, some of us are trying to get out at 5.

4. I got it.
As soon as you understand exactly what someone is explaining, tell them in one way or another, “I got it.” Doing so frees them to move on and cover more ground. Similarly, if someone else says “I got it”… » Continue

May 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: office, office-politics, officelife, officespace, time, timemanagement | 9 comments»

50 Ways To Increase Your Productivity

Here are 50 ways to increase your productivity and add hours to your day.

1. Take a break. You can’t always be working at optimum productivity. Instead, you should shoot for working in short bursts at your most productive times.

2. Set a timer for each of your tasks.

3. Eliminate all distractions. This includes the phone, email notifications, and having multiple web browsers open on the desktop.

4. Distractions should be… » Continue

May 17 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: Productivity, timemanagement | 74 comments»

How to Clone Yourself!

How many of us have wished at times that we could clone ourselves? Delegating to a personal assistant is a simple way to reclaim hours of your time and free you up to do what you are best at doing. Think this is not for you? Think again and read on! We’re going to cover how to afford it, how to find one, how to… » Continue

March 20 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: delegation, household, housekeeping, timemanagement | 7 comments»

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