Tweet97ShareShare51148 SharesYou spend time cleaning your office, your car, and even your bedroom. You also spend countless hours filing paper and email. Yet, when was the last time you cleaned up your phone? Is it as organized as the rest of your life, or is it a mess of unused apps, notifications, and more?
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Always Give Yourself More Time Than You Think You Need
Tweet130ShareShare69199 SharesAre you guilty of not allowing enough time for even life’s simple tasks? You end up rushing because you didn’t allow enough time for getting ready, traveling to obligations, and finishing last-minute work. Not allowing enough time is a sure recipe for stress, disorganization, and wasted time.
5 Ways to Increase Your Productivity in Creative Work
Tweet103ShareShare38141 SharesCreative work is hard. New ideas take time. And effort. These endeavors never seem productive. They require long periods of brainstorming, often requiring solitude or isolation. (Although sometimes teams work, too.) Is it possible to get your creative work done faster? Creating Faster How do you create? Where do your new ideas come from? […]
Why Reading Your Email is a Waste of Time
Tweet125ShareShare163288 SharesDo you open emails and then leave them in your inbox? Would you do this with your post office mail? (Your mail carrier would get angry pretty quickly…) This action makes no sense. It wastes time and only serves to create more work later. Don’t bother opening your emails unless you are prepared to […]
You Have to Push Yourself to Get Ahead
Tweet93ShareShare33126 SharesAre you just going thru the motions, repeating yourself each day? Do the same things? Giving the minimal effort? Settling to be average? To rise above and succeed at your goals… you need to leave your comfort zone and push your limits.
5 Common Mistakes People Make Spending Their Time
Tweet125ShareShare84209 SharesTime is a currency. It is what makes up life. And it is the one thing in life that you cannot replace. You don’t get more later. You can’t directly buy more. And, ironically, you truly never know how much you have left. Ask, “What am I spending my time on?” The answer might […]
Bad Planning on Your Part, Shouldn’t Be an Emergency on My Part
Tweet77ShareShare50127 SharesYou are just getting to your work when your boss rushes in with a “last-minute emergency.” He or she needs something right now. But, the irony is when you look at the email they sent, the information in it is weeks old. The “emergency” is really just because they procrastinated. Do others create emergencies […]
10 Time Management Tasks You Can Do in Under a Minute
Tweet164ShareShare131295 SharesPeople often think that they don’t have time for time management. I don’t have time to plan, time to organize, or time to get to my todo list. Yet, the biggest results of managing your time are from the small things that you do. The minor habits and tactics that often take moments of […]
Why You Shouldn’t Schedule Meetings Longer than One Hour
Tweet273ShareShare151424 SharesPeople have a hard time attending meetings that are longer than one hour. Maybe it’s today’s ADD. Or perhaps, it’s just that any meeting that long is a waste of many people’s time. Either way, there is almost no reason to schedule a meeting for over 60 minutes. If you do, you’re scheduling more […]
Why You Should Pick a Time for Your Tasks
Tweet175ShareShare52227 SharesYou keep saying you will do that task. Yet, you keep putting it off, and you never seem to get to it. When will you actually do it? The simple question you need to ask is, “At what time will I get this task done?”