All Entries Tagged With: "Time Management"

I sometimes get hundreds of emails a day. I used to get sucked in and spend hours sorting them out. I invariably ended up having a day when nothing seemed to be getting done. Over time, I discovered and started using these tricks and now I feel completely in control and save many hours every [...]

Saying no is perhaps the most important productivity tool that exists. Saying no is an art. It is also perhaps the most difficult thing to do for most people. I used to dread the occasions where I knew I will have to say no and I used to prepare for such situations for days. Now, [...]

We have a persistent feeling of events receding into a past of non-existence. The future is a nebulous void. The present moment is all that we experience and therefore grant it a higher level of existence.

There are several concepts and approaches that aim to improve your time management skills. However, most of them seem to rest on unrealistic concepts that actually achieve nothing. Effective time management entails the maximum use of whatever time that is available each day to enable you to accomplish designated tasks.

Many productivity books have a drill sergeant running between the lines. Panic! So much to do to organize all that I have to do. The Power of Less is a sweet exception to that. Babauta’s energy is gentle and kind. No whistles. No drills. Just a zen-like understanding of what it takes to honour what’s essential.

A new approach to time management

One tends to see people rushing around either being busy or trying to be busy. Nowhere is it more evident than in an aircraft which has just landed and everyone jumps up, pulls out their bags and switches on the mobiles. They impatiently wait for the ladder or aero bridge and rush out. I would [...]

One tends to see a lot of stressed out people around nowadays, across gender and age group. Most seem to be running against time to complete a task or several of them. First, I am never able to understand the context of ‘running against’ time. Time is eternal and is a constant. Some people say [...]

What is the purpose of life? As Albert Camus said, “We humans are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd.” If we are to believe in what Mr. Camus observed, we’ll also have to admit that the extent to which humans go to achieve this assurance is [...]

Man has always perceived time in diverse ways and it has always been his intention to solve the its mystery. How can we define time? There are hundreds of definitions but as far as I have understood, time is irreversible. Since we are a part of this universe with finite life-spans our existence is dependent [...]

One mile south of Georgia O’Keefe’s beloved Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, thirteen miles down a cliff-hugging dirt road in the heart of Chama Canyon, you will find Christ In The Desert. The Benedictine Monastery is cloister to about twenty monks. I’d fantasized about retreating to the remote monastery for about fifteen years. And when [...]

am not against using Facebook. I believe it’s the best networking site (I am a Facebook user as well). But I am amazed to see the outrageous Facebook fad taking control of so many lives among people of all ages.

Learn how to create a balance in your time and work by applying the theory of the Four Elements — earth, fire, air and water — to the way you manage your time. Here is a model of time management that, although highly original and innovative, is based on a theory that is several thousand [...]

It is easy to say, difficult to practice. Most small entrepreneurs have problems to control their time. It is fundamental to organize your tasks and schedule. There are also plenty of articles, books and talking about the subject. Why? Let’s start from the end. With more time available you will be able to exercise innovation, [...]

I have a confession to make.  I am a procrastinator.  I can find a reason to do just about anything other than the tasks I dread.  For example, I should be getting a mailing out right now, but I am writing this article.  However, I recently completed a ton of tasks I had been putting [...]

Owning a business is an audacious task. There are numerous things that need to be completed in a day. It gets so frustrating that owners and fitness professionals question how all will get accomplished. The crux of the issue lies not in the amount of time or lack of time, but organization. The successful entrepreneur [...]

Achieving success is something a lot of people want, but they suffer from a disease called procrastination. When you want to be successful and change in your life you need to overcome procrastination as soon as possible. Here are a few ways to overcome it: 1. Break down goals into smaller more realistic goals. Say [...]

There are some people who are invariably late no matter how hard they try to be in time. It is for the simple reason that they did not manage their time well. Such people always feel beleaguered by different tasks they have to do each day. They feel exhausted and tired. The solution lies in [...]