Time Management Category Archive
Monday, May 8th, 2006
After writing the time management article “Do It Now,” which was based on my experience of graduating college in three semesters with two degrees, I received many follow-up questions from students asking for more advice. Here are 10 tips to help you create a productive and memorable college experience… and most of all, to deeply enjoy this time [...]
Posted in Goals & Goal Setting, Motivation, Personal Development, Problem Solving, Productivity, Success, Time Management | 17 Comments »
Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
When your alarm wakes you up in the morning, is it hard for you to get up right away? Do you find yourself hitting the snooze button and going right back to sleep?
That used to be part of my daily awakening ritual too. When my alarm would blare its infernal noise, I’d turn the damned thing [...]
Posted in Problem Solving, Productivity, Self-Discipline, Sleep, Success, Time Management | 97 Comments »
Friday, March 3rd, 2006
No time management system is worth much if it doesn’t tell you what to do at 9am on Monday morning. Suppose you have a list of all your tasks and projects. Which one should you work on first?
My answer is that you should work on the task that you believe will yield the greatest long-term [...]
Posted in Consciousness & Awareness, Getting Things Done, Productivity, Self-Discipline, Time Management | 15 Comments »
Friday, February 24th, 2006
After a stock market rally, many investors will sell some of their stock to “lock in their gains.” They cash out and take the rewards they’ve accumulated. Partly this is to ensure that the rewards of their efforts are actually received because in a short period of time the market could very well erase them. [...]
Posted in Career & Work, Getting Things Done, Personal Development, Productivity, Self-Discipline, Success, Time Management, Wealth & Money | 2 Comments »
Monday, February 6th, 2006
“Time Management” is a new article I just posted to the free articles section.
Time management is a subject I’ve investigated extensively, and this article explores my most recent thoughts about it. When I first began seriously studying time management in 1992, I learned a myriad of low-level tactics that allowed me to increase my personal productivity. Graduating [...]
Posted in Career & Work, Getting Things Done, Goals & Goal Setting, Productivity, Purpose, Time Management | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
Lately I’ve been trying a promising new method for managing my time. It’s similar to timeboxing, except that instead of allocating a certain amount of time for a specific activity, I divide my total work time between three different classes of activities.
Here’s how it works…
First, I define three different classes of activities based on [...]
Posted in Balance, Getting Things Done, Planning, Productivity, Time Management | 22 Comments »
Sunday, December 18th, 2005
It’s amazing the lengths people go through to avoid making a simple mistake. I think the reason is that we’re so conditioned to believe that making a mistake is something bad, so we go overboard in trying to avoid making mistakes altogether — to the point of being unintelligent about it.
There are a number [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Productivity, Success, Time Management | 1 Comment »
Friday, December 9th, 2005
“The good is the enemy of the best” is a common expression in time management. Recently I’ve been coming face-to-face with the realities of this expression.
Every day I receive emails with a variety of leads and recommendations — blog posts and online articles to check out, books to read, new online services to examine, [...]
Posted in Goals & Goal Setting, Planning, Productivity, Self-Discipline, Time Management | 3 Comments »
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
As I explained in detail in the article “Do It Now,” I graduated from college with two degrees in just three semesters (no summer school). I went to California State University, Northridge and took all the necessary courses to earn Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, and I did it by [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Goals & Goal Setting, Motivation, Productivity, Purpose, Success, Time Management | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 28th, 2005
I’ve added a new article called “Do It Now” to the free articles section.
This is an updated version of an extremely popular time management article I wrote in 2000. That original article was geared towards shareware developers, so I’ve rewritten much of it to broaden its appeal. I’ve also added about 70% new [...]
Posted in Getting Things Done, Goals & Goal Setting, Productivity, Success, Time Management | 7 Comments »
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