From the monthly archives: February 2010
How do you eat an elephant? How do you move a mountain? How you do begin a journey of 1000 miles? The answers are all the same… you do it bit by bit… One bite at a time. One spoonful of dirt at a time. With a single step. You cannot do the whole thing [...]
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Where is your mail going? Or better yet… how many places is your mail going? The problem that many people experience is simple: too many mailboxes. How many inboxes do you have to check?
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There has been much discussion lately about email etiquette and email rules. Everyone has experienced someone who can’t seem to abide by email standards. Then it hit me… where are the standards? (Well, yes, there are always etiquette standards. Those are the socially accepted norms.) But, does your company have published email usage standards? Not [...]
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Do you get things done? Let me ask a slightly different question, “Do you get things done on time?” These days it seems that not many people do. The norm is to be late whether it is finishing a project or showing up to a meeting. Our society has conditioned us to ignore deadlines. How [...]
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This is Part 3 in a 3 part series. See also Part 1 and Part 2. In the previous posts, we discussed two potential impacts from a poorly designed or implemented time management system: Leak and Creep. Leak was the loss of information from your system, usually due to inadequate tools to capture it. Creep [...]
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This post is part 2 in a 3 part series (See part 1 here.) In the last post, we discussed 3 potential impacts from a poorly designed or implemented time management system. (Leak, Creep, and Bloat). Today, I want to talk about “Creep.” Does your time management system keep getting bigger? I mean this literally, [...]
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This post is part 1 of 3 in a series. A poor or incomplete time management system can wreck havoc on your personal organization and efficiency. In fact, a poor time management system can actually make you less productive. Let’s explore 3 impacts of a poorly implemented solution. They are: Leak, Creep, and Bloat. Each [...]
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One of the main reasons that people fail at time management is… because their system fails. Too often people try to implement systems that are too complex. This leads to loss of information, overlooked obligations, and general frustration. (See “Why complex time management systems fail…“) It is ironic, that the #1 time management book today preaches [...]
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How do you get ready? Or maybe the question should be “do you get ready for your day?” I recently wrote that “planning is one of those important things that you don’t have time not to do.” After all, planning actually gives you more time in your day. It does this by preventing you from missing [...]
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