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Time Management Articles:
Interruptions can be avoided or controlled.
John Medina, in his book, “Brain rules,” remarked that studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50% longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50% more errors. And according to Rescue Time, knowledge workers check email fifty times a...
How to keep up with your email.
There are two times during the workday when you should never check email - the first thing at the start of the day, and the last thing before you leave work in the afternoon. If you look at your email in the morning you could be sidetracked from your day’s plan of...
A closer look at making the main thing the main thing.
Important tasks are those tasks that have intrinsic value and help to achieve a goal that you have set. A priority is the task that you have chosen to do first. A priority can be either important or unimportant. For example, some people may choose to handle email...
Make your work sessions brief and focused.
It is rewarding to read that more and more people are agreeing with my selection of 90-minute blocks of time to concentrate on priority activities. They may not all agree with the 90 minutes, but they have discovered that focusing for a shorter time frame to the...
A few of my favorite time management books
I'll mention Stephen Covey's 1989 classic, The 7 habits of highly successful people, which seemed to me to be one of the first books to take a holistic approach to time management. It is a “must read” of course, but I want to get to the more recent books, which may...
Has time management changed in 40 years?
It was 40 years ago when my first book, Making time work for you, was published in 1981. Most of the same suggestions and principles are still valid, at least those that could be adapted to the digital fast-paced world of today. Although Alan Lakein's book, How to get...
How to build trust and respect.
In last week's log article, “Remote work is here to stay,” I mentioned that a large increase in the number of remote workers is expected in the coming years due to the tenacity of the COVID-19 pandemic. I also mentioned that trust and respect will become even more...
Remote work is here to stay.
In 2020, as Covid-19 disrupted the way we work, companies started transitioning into mobile workforces as many employees worked from home. This was not new, since some companies had already had up to a third of their employees telecommuting, collectively saving...
Beyond time management
A few years ago, I self-published a book called How to grow older without growing old to suggest a set of new time management strategies for seniors that I referred to in other books as holistic time management. I define holistic time management as “applying the...