“Where did this week go?”
That common phrase can be interpreted in two different ways:

It was a great week. I had so much fun/got so much done that it flew by.
I don’t feel that I accomplished anything I had planned, and it is already the end of the week.

It is not hard to figure out [...]

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Job Advertisement: “Must be good at multitasking.”
Obviously the company that posted the above ad is not up-to-date on current research which shows that no one is good at multitasking. Now I realize that you are probably disagreeing with me right now, since you multitask throughout the day, but reality is that our brains [...]

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My last post discussed how we stretch ourselves to the limit and then can push ourselves further when driving as we try to reach a destination quickly, often in the interest of better time management. At that same time the news came out about the possibility that two Mesa Air pilots both fell asleep [...]

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Recently a headline hit all of the major papers, asking, “Is Night Shift Tied to Cancer?” The International Agency for Research on Cancer is adding overnight-shift work as a probably carcinogen.
This doesn’t mean that working nights will, by itself, cause cancer. What happens is that the overnight work creates a risk when it disrupts the [...]

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We are faced with jobs, errands, and projects that require our immediate attention every day. Tasks from personal chores (picking up the dry cleaning) to professional obligations (finishing the report by 5 p.m.) weigh on our minds regularly. Trying to decide which to do when can be a challenge.To help determine priorities, let’s first consider [...]

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Stress that is good for you? It is possible. Good stress stems from working hard and productively, feeling accomplished at the end of a challenging day.
Jenna Goudreau recently wrote an article in Business Week about stress factors. Good stress relates to concentration and creativity. This kind of stress is what encourages you to finally sit [...]

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There is a movement afloat, sponsored in part by the Take Back Your Time organization, that is calling for legislation to block companies from not allowing separate sick days and vacation leave. These companies instead combine the days and simply give you x number of days per year to take.
The Fair Labor Standards Act was [...]

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Where you live and your commute time can have more of an impact on your time management challenges than just the obvious number of minutes involved.First take a look at the ever-lengthening time involved in commuting. The Transportation Research Board states that the average round-trip commute is 51 minutes, and almost 10 million American are [...]

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In the past several comments on the issue of vacation deprivation, based on the segment with the NBC Nightly News for which I was interviewed as their productivity expert in dealing with this issue, I talked about the increasing demands placed on our time, the intrustions of technology, and the need to use that “extra” [...]

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In the struggle for a relaxed vacation, technology is a major factor. It can be a plus or minus. In this posting, we will look at the negative, and then in the next one we will see it in a more positive light. The NBC Nightly News segment for which I was interviewed featured a [...]

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