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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...
Are you robbing your family of their memories?
Ten years ago, I took a photo of a father and son sitting in the Toronto airport, both independently engrossed in their electronic devices. At a time management workshop later, I showed this photo and asked the question, “What is this man doing?” He was multitasking,...
Skipping sleep is a productivity killer
“We are fearfully and wonderfully made.” (Psalm 139:14) Your body is programmed to spend one third of its life asleep – and to sleep in specific cycles of light sleep, deep sleep, and active brain sleep. Each complete cycle takes about 90 minutes, and has a specific...
There is no such thing as a “best planner.”
There are hundreds of different paper planners on the market today. Do you know why? Because there are hundreds of ways to record your plans, and just as many approaches to planning. Back in the early 80s, in the heyday of my time management training career, I thought...
When people are most productive
The Secrets of Our Body Clocks by Susan Perry and Jim Dawson reveal some interesting information on how our internal clocks operate. For instance, most of us reach our peak alertness around noon. So, delaying lunch until 12:30 or 1:00 p.m. might capitalize on our...
How your circadian rhythm works
Recently, there has been more research on our circadian rhythm, which acts something like an internal timer that determines how our bodies function during a 24-hour day. We are now beginning to understand the full significant of God’s creation of time and the...
For maximum performance, follow your biological clock
Since ancient times people have experienced getting hungry, sleepy, alert, and so on at specific times of the day, and in the 1960s this whole new field of biology called chronobiology began to study what is now known as our circadian rhythm. It was suspected that...
Control your time through scheduling
When you schedule your priorities and other important tasks and activities into your planning calendar, don't forget to include your family. Everyone I have talked to claim their family is their priority. But does the family know it? The problem, according to author...