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Time Management Articles:
Ideas have no expiry dates.
In one of my earlier blog articles I mentioned my love of books and my tendency to hang onto them. I have been criticized more than once for citing time management reference books that were over ten years old – as though ideas had a “Best before” date. Let me remind...
How to Speak in Public
If you present time management keynotes or other presentations, how you deliver the material is almost as important as the content. You want to keep the group’s attention and ensure that learning is taking place. Here are some suggestions based on my experiences....
Laws governing the use of time.
There are several laws that collectively provide effective guidelines for those who wish to maximize their use of time. Here are a few of the more important ones; along with brief explanations of how they can impact the way you manage time. Parkinson’s Law: “Work...
Do not underestimate the importance of sleep.
Your body is programmed to spend one third of its life asleep – and to sleep in specific cycles of light sleep, deep sleep, and active brain sleep. Each cycle takes about 90 minutes, and each has a specific assignment that affects thinking, memory, growth, your immune...
Are we beginning to outlive our minds?
In the late 1800s, life expectancy was about 40 years. By the end of the 1900s life expectancy had increased to about 79. In 2021, at last report, it was 82.7. Better health care and living conditions have proven to be great time management strategies. You can...
Undertime will eliminate the need for overtime.
Enterprise-Rent-A-Car several years ago surveyed 1000 Americans and found that 70% worked at least one weekend a month, with 63% saying that their employer expected them to put in time on Saturday or Sunday. And if they were not physically present in the office, 74%...
What happened to our travel time?
Traveling on business used to give us an opportunity to get caught up on our work. In my first book, Making Time Work for You, published in 1981 by General Publishing in Canada and Beaufort in the United States, (and out of print long ago) I had a chapter titled “Make...
Don’t burn the candle at both ends.
The expression, “burning the candle at both ends,” was first coined in the 18th century. At that time, “both ends” was a reference to both ends of the candle. Candles were both useful and expensive in those days, and...
Efficiency & Effectiveness in review.
When we have a lot of things to do and we start to get behind in our work, we tend to speed up. This could backfire since the faster we go, the more we focus on how much we are getting done and less on what it is we are doing. It goes well if we are always doing the...