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TheIronStar · 12-06-2006, 06:03 AM

Hi again all,

I'll give a bit more detail on my situation. For me it's not so much a matter of fitting more into a given workday or how to be more efficient in the workplace, but rather how to fit in the rest of life effectively, without having to resort to triage or trading one thing for another.

It gives me nasty flashbacks even to think about it. I remember the old joke long ago in my school days: "work, friends, sleep: choose two", and having to choose two while knowing and seeing others who had all three, and how not much seems to have changed after the better part of a decade--still can't seem to get to work, improve my fitness, have an outside interest or two, and a full night of sleep (I don't have the advantage of people- or place-overlap). And this is without bothering with an actual social life.

I've read Covey's seven habits thing: the quadrant things make sense to me. It helps prevents the "work expands to fill the allotted time" phenomenon, to a point.

I'm wondering how conventional time-planning methods would assist in things that can't be done 'efficiently' such as fitting in time for socializing or for outside interests. (Efficiency with work, effectiveness with people, I remember from Covey.)

I'll definitely check out the other books soon.

12-06-2006, 06:03 AM	#15 (permalink)
TheIronStar Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 160	Hi again all, I'll give a bit more detail on my situation. For me it's not so much a matter of fitting more into a given workday or how to be more efficient in the workplace, but rather how to fit in the rest of life effectively, without having to resort to triage or trading one thing for another. It gives me nasty flashbacks even to think about it. I remember the old joke long ago in my school days: "work, friends, sleep: choose two", and having to choose two while knowing and seeing others who had all three, and how not much seems to have changed after the better part of a decade--still can't seem to get to work, improve my fitness, have an outside interest or two, and a full night of sleep (I don't have the advantage of people- or place-overlap). And this is without bothering with an actual social life. I've read Covey's seven habits thing: the quadrant things make sense to me. It helps prevents the "work expands to fill the allotted time" phenomenon, to a point. I'm wondering how conventional time-planning methods would assist in things that can't be done 'efficiently' such as fitting in time for socializing or for outside interests. (Efficiency with work, effectiveness with people, I remember from Covey.) I'll definitely check out the other books soon.