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Time Management Articles:
Don’t let your garage be a victim of overflow.
As car ownership increased in the early 1900s and repurposed carriage houses were no longer adequate to serve as garages, separate sheds began to appear, sans the smell of animals. These early garages, originally located not far from the houses, soon adjoined them,...
Do you really need a “Junk” drawer?
There was an interesting study done by Joybird, a custom furniture company, on how Americans organize their homes. It involved a survey of 1900 people who were asked among other things, how often they organized their homes. Responses indicated that 48.1% of them...
The importance of hearing loss
I denied any hearing loss for years, accusing everyone of mumbling, or claiming that the TV interfered, or “I could not hear you because the water was running.” As Mary Jordan suggests in her book, Coping with Mild Cognitive Impairment, it is sensible to have your...
A capsule course in time management.
There are hundreds of books on time management and it would take thousands to describe the topic in detail. But here is my summary of what time management is all about. Do not try to manage time. You cannot manage time, but you can manage how you use it. In other...
Memories consume little space
Glenn Adamson, a curator, and scholar, in his book Fewer, Better Things, claims that purchasing a crafted object prompts you to respect the person who made it. If you respect the object, he says, it is likely that you are going to respect the person who made it. I...
Time to be a proactive person.
Proactive people are action-oriented and start tasks before they are motivated to do so. The motivation comes after they have already started. They let their behavior drive their motivation to finish the task. In this case, it is action before...
Work on the most important, most difficult tasks first.
People tend to work on the easiest tasks first and leave the more difficult tasks until later in the day. If the easiest tasks are also the most important, that is not as bad, but still not the best idea if there are important, difficult tasks to do. Despite the...
Getting the right things done
I was reminded by the titles of many time management books on my shelves that some people may get the impression that “getting things done” is what life is all about. The titles on the covers are deceiving, even though the...
Checklists are tools for proactive managers
Proactive means “acting beforehand.” By taking note of the past and acting in the present, proactive people assure themselves that things will go smoothly in the future. Proactive people are not only excellent time managers, but effective leaders, because they are...