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By MaryEllen Tribby
The other day I was tired. Not just yawn tried, but so tired my head hurt, my feet hurt and everything in between hurt.
To make matters worse, I had a zillion and one things that needed to get done that day, important things. Including hosting a bi-monthly Q & A ... Views: 1741
We recently received a phone call from one of our clients. She was frantic. She couldn't get it all done. There were so many deadlines. There was so much to produce, and there was so little time. We had a conversation with her and within 10 minutes, she gave up feeling overwhelmed, had gotten ... Views: 1739
Whenever you are feeling overwhelmed or rushed, check-in with your personal perception and experience of ‘reality’.
It might be useful to remember that our calendars and clocks are man-made; therefore these can also be ‘man-unmade’.
The fact is, our globe moves ... Views: 1736
Use your passion to simplify your life. Knowing what you want out of life and intending your success in achieving it is the best way to simplify your life. Follow your passion every day. By first identifying that which you are passionate about, you will be able to categorize the other items ... Views: 1733
This article provides many time saving tips. One of the most persistent obstacles to personal achievement is that old bugaboo, "I never have enough time." The following insights and methods reveal how to have more time. You can review these methods and adopt the ones that seem most ... Views: 1733
The Pareto principle was a theory by Vilfredo Pareto, which is now a popular concept of personal time management. He was an economist who theorized that 80 percent of all the problems that people encounter results from 20 percent of all causes.
This may look like a theory that is too ... Views: 1732
Over 12 years of working from home, one would imagine that I have my time management system set in stone. Much to your surprise, I find great success in some general time management principles that I stick to instead.
By establishing a few principles or guidelines for your time, you are able ... Views: 1725
10 Tips for Overcoming Procrastination
“After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.”
Old proverb
Why do we procrastinate? Over the years, here are some of the things I’ve heard people say in my workshop on time ... Views: 1723
Fact:
* There are 60 seconds in 1 minute
* There are 60 minutes in 1 hour
* There are 24 hours in 1 day
* There are 7 days in 1 week
* There are 365 days in 1 year (usually)
So what is the point of all this?
The point is that time is a definite in life - there will never be more than 60 ... Views: 1723
I wonder how much more time you would have on your hands, to do all the important things in life, all the things that you really want to do, if you stopped doing the things that you shouldn't be doing.
In conversation with a group of people earlier this year, they calculated that they would ... Views: 1715
In this fast paced world, one has to face conflicting demands of time for study, leisure, earning money and job hunting. Sometimes it may seem that there isn't enough time to do everything that you need to. This can lead to a build up of stress. Consequently, it is important to develop ... Views: 1714
In 2014/15 a 30 billion dollar FTSE 100 company specializing in smart drugs [ working memory and attention] was the takeover target of ABBvie the US Pharmaceutical giant .
In her book Working Memory: The Connected Intelligence Tracy Alloway argues that Working Memory is a better test of ... Views: 1714
Ever leave a meeting and wonder why you met?
Ever have a meeting and after much discussion, decide on a plan but then – nothing ever happens?
Here are three questions can lead the leader to conducting more efficient, more effective and maybe even fewer meetings.
Questions to ask and ... Views: 1711
Are you having problems with your productivity? In this article, I will be sharing with you some online self help tips on how you can improve your productivity and hence accomplish more things in lesser time. Do read this article with an open mind and I believe you will learn something new, so ... Views: 1710
At a conference this year, I heard many self employed and small business owners lamenting how hard they were working, yet not gaining any new business growth or profit. In today’s business environment many emerging entrepreneurs mistakenly attempt to wear all the hats when running their ... Views: 1710
Techniques and Tools To Keep You Focused All throughout The Daytime
Being focused all throughout the daytime might be quite hard. There are a few things you might do and some techniques you can employ that will make things much easier to concentrate and get things done.
Here are methods ... Views: 1707
Goal achievement is really a very simple process: persistently take your best action for what you want until you arrive at your goal. As simple as this seems, very few actually employ the process to achieve really big goals. The key to using the goal achievement process to make your greatest ... Views: 1705
Spring cleaning is a biological urge to make way for the new (season) and if you act upon that urge a cleaner office space shall emerge and your life will be content once again. Whether it is an old friendship that has outlived its expiry date or those pile of papers on your desk that no longer ... Views: 1702
Time can be your friend or your enemy. For many people who have “free time” to accomplish long-term projects or writing tasks, it is a merciless tyrant. It is just too easy to allow the slightly harder task to slide, as you fill in your day with the humdrum and the emergencies.
The Enemy You ... Views: 1700
Do you feel like you do not have time to accomplish all the things you have on your “to-do list”? Or, are you one of those people who love to leave things for later and in the end, those things never get done making you feel unaccomplished? It probably means that you need to work on improving ... Views: 1699
"We share what we know, so that we all may grow".
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Thirty - Two Tips to Help Manage Your Time Better
(from 'Handbook to Survive Life')
What CAN I do to manage my time better?
I believe the key to effective time management is ... Views: 1697
How different would your life be if you just didn’t procrastinate at all? Or, think about how much better your life could be if procrastination actually made you more successful instead? Both might be hard to imagine, but today I am going to tell you why they are both possible. ... Views: 1695
Imagine that you work in human resources, and you've recently been dealing with a lot of people problems. It's been another long day. You're now meeting with your last "client" before you go home.
As you listen to this person's story, you start to get tense. You find yourself avoiding making ... Views: 1693
5 effective time management tips
Do you know what’s the most precious asset you own? Its your time!
Just think about it, if you used your time wisely you will be able to acquire whatever asset you are after. If you want money then you need to use your time wisely, if you want fame then you ... Views: 1692
Do you remember this version of the “Golden Rule” … “The one with the gold makes the rules.” Just kidding … a little joke there. The real “Golden Rule” states, “Do onto others as you would have them do unto you.” That means, treat others as you would like them to treat you. When it comes to ... Views: 1691
I’m a big fan of ‘to do’ lists as they are such a quick way to regain a sense of control, and a simple way to keep that way. Our brains simply don’t have enough RAM to remember all our commitments at work and home, and taking information out of our head and onto a list frees up the energy needed ... Views: 1690
Time stress has greater and greater influence on our life. We always find ways on time management to release time stress or improve productivity. Many of us work using one hour as work unit, so it is practical to use this one hour with improved productivity. Here we will share a law of 45/15 on ... Views: 1687
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness...never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Lord Chesterfield
I often wondered where this quote came from. I don't know who Lord Chesterfield was, but I will find out later, but he was very ... Views: 1687
“Simple clear purpose in principle gives rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior.” If this quote by Dee Hock contains truth then your business plan, game plan or even life plan must be concise.
When it comes to writing ... Views: 1684
With the upcoming launch of Happy Woman Happy World, the first book of The Women’s Code, my team is on red alert. Aside from all the excitement over the completion of the book, I find myself FREAKING OUT at all the things that are piling up on my to-do list. Frankly these days that list is ... Views: 1682
Life is filled with distractions that can take your focus off the tasks you need to accomplish and time management is a struggle for many. While it is a difficult skill to master for many, time management is simply managing the time you have allotted to you while on this earth. You can manage ... Views: 1681
Time Management Tips to Win
Time management is critical to boost good organization of one’s personal utilization of schedule. Managing the early morning routine, for example, could be one way of effective time management if things are executed in a smooth and convenient manner.
The problem ... Views: 1679
When people want to move to career freedom, often they don't want a new career at all. They love their career -- but they also want a balanced life. Here are ten questions to help you get started on the quest for "more time in your life -- and more fun."
1. Where does leisure rank among ... Views: 1677
You know how you can have a stack of papers piling up on the corner of your desk?
You see it there every day.
You dread dealing with it.
Maybe even try to ignore it, yet when you are on the phone, it distracts you.
You can’t help but take a peak.
Maybe even pick up a piece of it, thinking ... Views: 1677
It’s officially summertime and vacation season.
Business owners often have a tough time traveling on two fronts. First, there is often a sense that they are responsible for so many things that there is no way that they can truly shut down. Then there’s the other side of the coin… the sense ... Views: 1675
Smart phones, with their many features and capabilities, have become a staple in daily life.
It's the first thing that we check in the morning and the last thing we put down before we go to sleep.
Without it, I know that my life would be in complete chaos.
One of the main reasons for my ... Views: 1671
How many times have you taken a pile of work home over the weekend, fully intending to get it all done, and then you didn’t have enough time to complete even half of the work.
And then what happens? Instead of learning from this experience and taking home less work the next time, you do the ... Views: 1669
In the Business section of the New York Times (August 8, 2010 ), the author, Stephanie Rosenbloom, wrote about people who had successfully downsized their lives, sometimes to a level many of us would deem extreme, particularly when it came to possessions. Whether by choice or circumstances, such ... Views: 1667
Procrastination can cause nightmares, literally. Have you ever had one of those dreams where you are in school and have a paper due or a test to take and you haven’t done anything to prepare? It seems to be almost a universal human experience. He good news is that even if you have ... Views: 1665
If you have ever worked as a school teacher, you probably know how valuable time management tips are. The bell rings every forty minutes and forces you to move on whether you're ready or not. In order for your students to learn what they need to learn within the limited amount of time you have ... Views: 1665
If you have a website, someone will have to take care of it in a variety of ways. There’s a certain perception that a website either (1) does not need regular maintenance or (2) is easy-enough to update. I’ve run into a number of business owners who think that they can run, update, design, and ... Views: 1665
Procrastination is a bad habit and you are definitely not alone if you procrastinate. Many people are procrastinators, and overtime, this bad habit can cause severe damage to your work life and your overall mental wellbeing. You may find yourself feeling depressed, guilty or suffer from high ... Views: 1665
Do you feel like you are always running behind and then playing catch-up with yourself? Every time you attempt a new task, do you end up feeling frustrated and overwhelmed while the clock just keeps ticking? Can you feel yourself getting anxious, even just reading this?
Well, it doesn’t have ... Views: 1664
I just read an article by Joel Spolsky on multi-tasking and computers. He really opened my eyes to the downside of the law of exponential growth.
For years, yes years, I thought I was getting more done by doing multiple things at once. Seems efficient, right. WRONG! It really does take more ... Views: 1664
As simple as it may sound time management is based on task management, completing important tasks within the limited time that you have. Therefore, an important element of time management is identifying the tasks that you want to complete and organizing them into a simple list.
A list is a ... Views: 1662
In surveys done across many job categories, including construction, service industries like hotels and restaurants, small business owners and corporate moguls, a large percentage of those surveyed said that they felt they needed to improve their time management skills so that they didn’t ... Views: 1662
Each of us has a core work style (governed by our core personality style) which, when consciously understood, can provide powerful insight into how we go about managing our time.
By way of example, here are two very different attorney profiles as depicted by a widely-used style inventory call ... Views: 1659
These days, it seems like we are being pulled in so many different directions. Priorities compete with each other, and it just seems like we can’t get everything done, doesn’t it?
What’s worse, it seems like our daily “to do” lists grow much faster than our abilities to check them off. No ... Views: 1655
Sure, you've thought about curtailing your procrastination habit instead of trying to justify it. But it's hard to do. You have your ingrained patterns. You're always busy with something. There are never enough hours in the day. If you've been unsuccessful so far, it could be that you haven't ... Views: 1655
If you don't follow a schedule you may start your day by sitting down at your desk wondering what you will do today. You will not be productive and likely not accomplish anything important.
Let's say you start with checking email and get sidetracked forgetting the world outside of your inbox ... Views: 1654