by Harold Taylor | Jan 17, 2022 | General Time Management
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...
by Harold Taylor | Jan 4, 2022 | General Time Management
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...
by Harold Taylor | Dec 20, 2021 | General Time Management
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...
by Harold Taylor | Dec 13, 2021 | General Time Management
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...
by Harold Taylor | Dec 6, 2021 | General Time Management
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,...
by Harold Taylor | Nov 29, 2021 | General Time Management
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...
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