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Develop a Goal-Setting Mindset
Project Management for Entrepreneurs
Procrastinate Less & Get More Done
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Time Management Articles:
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...
The principles of pacing.
If you want to get the right things done in this digital age of speed, work slower, not faster. Your progress is greater when you do not undertake too many projects or tasks at the same time. Have you ever taken on several large projects only to realize that you have...
To maximize efficiency, get in sync with your body’s rhythm.
Pay attention to your body's clock Have you ever felt completely exhausted after work with barely enough energy to flop on a couch after ordering a family-size pizza for dinner? You had completely used up your supply of energy for the day, and yet an hour or two later...
How to become a patient person.
In last week's article, I provided a dictionary definition of patience as “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.” But more accurately, I should have just said that patience is the opposite of impatience.”...
Quarterly newsletter from Harold Taylor, March 2021.
New Book The Proactive Manager, my latest e-Book, published this year by Bookboon, expands on my 2020 introductory book, How to Become a Proactive Person, and with the aid of more recent research, introduces you to our innate proactive brain and how you can enhance...
A patient person is a productive person.
John Dewey, a 20th century philosopher, psychologist, said that the most useful virtue in the world is patience. It is certainly true today. We have plenty of opportunities to be impatient. Most people in business face a plethora of interruptions, delays, rush jobs,...