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Time Management Articles:
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...
Importance and urgency vary with the situation.
We are oversimplifying when we say that important tasks are those that relate directly to our goals or they are tasks or activities with innate value. In most cases it may be true. But importance depends to a great degree on the situation at the time. Importance is...
To get organized and manage your time, start with your attitude.
David Rock, author of Your Brain at Work, says that one of the most common concerns he hears from organizations is that the more technical their people are, the worse their social skills seem to be. And a 2018 Labor Day survey indicated that 49% of Americans are...
Don’t criticize meetings, change them.
Tuesday is the best day for meetings, according to survey after survey. Of course, Tuesday wins by default since Monday is deemed the worst possible day for meetings, according to the same surveys, the reason being that Monday it is the most productive day of the...
Packrats lose time, space, and money
A survey on living spaces conducted by the magazine Mindful, and published in the June 2016 issue, asked people where they put things that they had not used in three years. Here are the results: 55% donate it to charity. 22% let it petrify at the bottom of a closet...
Shop less, toss more.
The logical place to start when you decide to limit the stuff in your home or office is at the source – shopping. If you have a broken water pipe, you do not start by mopping the floor, you turn off the water. In the same way, if you can resist those needless trips to...