Archive for the 'Time Management' Category

How To Stop Putting off The Inevitable

Everybody procrastinates from time to time, more so when you either don’t want to do something or if you don’t know how to set about doing it.  But we do also know that procrastination predetermines failure and so it is extremely important to make a serious effort to overcome it.   Procrastination can also take [...]

Would You Like To Stop Procrastinating?

We all procrastinate over some things in life.  I myself spent a couple of hours today procrastinating about a short trip to the market to get some necessities.  Necessity eventually overcame my reluctance to take that trip, when my stomach began to grumble about being empty! What is procrastination?  What causes it?  In my case [...]

FUN-What is this; why do I need it? Part #1

“If you don’t have any Fun in your Life, then all you have is a bunch of Thursdays?” (Movie , Rumor Has It) Starting with the end of childhood, moving into being a working adult and, finally, into the fifty plus stage with retirement on the horizon, our amount of Fun typically decreases. Why do [...]

FUN – Now that I know why I want more Fun, what would be Fun? Part #2

“If you don’t have any Fun in your Life, then all you have is a bunch of Thursdays?” (Movie – Rumor Has It) Now that I know why I want more Fun, what would be Fun? How can I have Fun? What do you stand for? What are your values? Some of mine are that [...]

Time Management Tips – How to Establish Boundaries That Safeguard Your Time and Energy

Time management tips can teach you how to regenerate your vitality immediately by setting boundaries, utilizing these 3 powerful strategies: Strategy #1: Comprehend how your time choices shape your quality of life. Genuinely appreciating the full power of your time choices requires and builds grit. Why? You genuinely realize what an enormous responsibility you carry [...]

Time Management Tips – 3 New Strategies to Conquer the Inner Critic Who Steals Your Time

Time management tips boost your self-confidence when you use them to harness thoughts to effectively manage your time. Your first step is re-channeling energy that is funneled into self-critical messages. Critical messages sap your energy, confidence, and creativity. Because they distract you, they can sabotage your best work, creating a vicious self-fulfilling prophecy. Fortunately, they [...]

Time Management Tips – 5 Ways Introverts Can Supercharge Their Productivity

Time management tips are the ultimate energy tools. To select the right tools for your energy type, take the quiz below. If you discover you are an introvert, prepare to magnify your effectiveness by using time strategies designed to capitalize on your unique attributes. According to Marti Olsen Lani, author of The Introvert Advantage, introvert [...]

Time Management Tips – 5 Assertiveness Tips For Setting Effective Boundaries

‘Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.’Jim Rohn This means you’re as rich as Bill Gates in life’s most precious commodity! Without assertiveness, though, you often sacrifice your valuable time to others’ demands. Take charge of your time and your life right now by using [...]

Time Management is Dead: The New Reality of Productivity

We’ve all been there. There’s mail piled up on the corner of your desk. You have 37 unread e-mails. The phone is ringing (not that phone – the other phone). And you’ll be lucky if you can get through three of the fifteen items on your to-do list. Oh – and you have four hours [...]

Lean and Mean in 2009: Go on a Low-Information Diet

Pretty much anybody you ask will tell you they’re pressed for time. There just aren’t enough hours to get it all done, yadda yadda yadda. So we prioritize, streamline, and simplify. You can improve your efficiency until you’re blue in the face, not to mention very tightly wound, but you still aren’t addressing one of [...]

Time Management Tips – How to Set Time Boundaries Using a Simple Visualization

Time management tips help you cultivate your power over your life, once you start exploring boundaries. Maintaining time boundaries powerfully reinforces your time management strategies. Until you set successful boundaries, you can’t protect even the best schedule. When you successfully maintain your time boundaries you may feel like you are saying “no” more often than [...]