Getting more done by blocking time in your schedule and grouping activities is a time management skill used by our guest writer, Diego Norte.  His experiences tie in with so many of the concepts that I review in my time management training seminars.  I thought it was worthwhile to share his personal experiences with time management [...]

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 This post was contributed by Holly McCarthy, who writes on the subject of online college degree programs.  She asked for the opportunity to share her thoughts on the best time management techniques. 

How often have we heard people moan that they don’t have enough time to complete all the numerous tasks that they have to do? [...]

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Each year I provide several days of time management training for school districts and state education associations.  In providing inservice training for a school district this week, I was once again struck by how difficult it is for our educators.  Every business has its unique challenges as well as struggles with managing time and information.  However [...]

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Do you find yourself wandering off into the realms of social networking sites like Facebook when you know you should be spending time on business matters?  While there is nothing wrong with Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Plaxo it is very easy to let those sites absorb hours that could be better spent on office routines. 
As Peter Drucker once [...]

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A crowded desktop on a computer can present the same challenge as several stacks of paper on your desk.  The challange, and the productivity loss, is the time spent searching for a document.  Yet keeping these unsorted documents is easier for many people who do not file because they recognize that, once a document goes into [...]

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You see the words everyday:  goal setting, time management, multitasking, organizing….  After diet and weight-loss books, these topics are high on the list of self-help tomes.  I have worked with clients who owned more time management books than many bookstores stock at one time, yet they still need me to come into their offices and [...]

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We tend to blame others when we can’t concentrate on a project, and there’s some validity in that.  After all, the average business person is interrupted about every three minutes.  Interruptions commonly stem from the telephone, email, or a colleague.  These are easy to pinpoint, but there is another one to add to that list.  [...]

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True or False:  You don’t have enough time.
True or False:  You can learn to save time.
True of False:  When you multitask, you accomplish more.
Scroll to the bottom for the answers.  If you didn’t get the answers right, you are certainly not alone in your thinking.  The first is the lament of the modern business world, the [...]

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Two things have just presented themselves to me in the last hour that both focused on self-discipline.  They came from two people who were trying to achieve goals and kept getting stuck.  While the areas are different, there is an overlap in the processes that bring the desired results.
Situation One: A teacher/real estate investor had [...]

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Another “senior moment”!  Why is it that the harder we work, the more difficult it becomes to remember the little details?  The more often we forget someone’s name or the location of our keys, the more the specter of Alzheimer’s creeps in.
Yet forgetting things is not all negative.  It is important to let go of extraneous [...]

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