What's the Secret of Effective Time Management, it's not What you Think!

There isn’t a person who works that hasn’t said, ‘I don’t have time’. So everyone can benefit from better time management. But is it really time management we need? I don’t believe so. By working on time management we’re often missing out on the real vision we are trying to achieve. What do I mean by that? Read on to find out why working on time management isn’t going to help business owners with what they really need.

Time Management from 30,000 Feet

In this day and age, there's really no excuse for any of us to complain about our time management, even though we all do. Time management is a skill that has been studied from every angle for years. The result is there are very learnable techniques available to each of us that we can employ to improve our time management.

Multi-tasking or Multi-excusing?

In the name of super productivity, are you doing two, even three things at once? Shaving while driving? While listening to recordings of seminars? While dodging traffic? Putting on make-up while you're cooking breakfast? Sorting while you're copying? Or are you just looking busy?

Timeboxing

Timeboxing is a simple time management technique I use often. I first learned about it in software development terms. Let’s say you have a fixed deadline for a new product you need to release, such as an annual upgrade to software for calculating income taxes. You must have a new version ready by a certain date. So you’ll probably use timeboxing for your development cycle, meaning that you do the best job you can within the time available. What new features you can implement are totally determined by the time frame. Slipping the schedule is simply not an option, so if you get behind, you must cut features.

How Are Your Boundaries?

Are you squandering time and energy because of absent or weak boundaries? Take this simple self-assessment and see how you measure up...

Is Your Life in Balance

As a professional speaker, one of the topics I often speak on is “Is Your Life In Balance?”, so I thought I would talk about Balance in this article.

Estimating The Value of Time

To find out the cost of each minute of your time, multiply your annual salary by 1.5- to include overheads- and divide the total by the number of working hours in a year (working hours per week time’s working weeks per year). Divide this total by 60.

Maxamize Time, Energy and Efforts

Learn how planning, daily habits, and personal perspective will help you increase your energy and make the most of your time and efforts.

Get More Time by Managing Your Energy

You can't get more time, but you can have more energy. Learn five simple strategies to gain more time through maximizing your energy.

Small Business Marketing Tip #5: How To Turn Time Into Dollar Bills

Have you ever found yourself on a Friday afternoon wondering where the week went? If so, don't do another thing before you read this entire article. It's revealing and true and can help you get a handle on your time and put money in your wallet.

Delegating Your Way to Time Management

Many people face each day wondering how in the world they will accomplish everything they need to get done. By learning how to delegate the household responsibilites you will indeed learn how to manage your time more effeciently, as well as lowering your stress levels tremendously.

All Day Sitting, Staring, Looking at Shadows on the Wall!

Are you the wake of the boat or the driver? Some will say both, let's take a look and see what the truth is behind this question is!

Balancing Family and Work

This short article gives tips on how to balance your work life with your family life.

Warming Up to the Concept of Time

“Now go on and enjoy yourself, dance to your heart’s content and win the Prince’s heart. But remember, you have to be back before the clock strikes twelve at midnight.” We all are familiar with the words of the Fairy God Mother in the evergreen fairy tale ‘Cinderella’. It’s these words that probably made us aware-for the first time in our lives-of the value of time. We all sympathized with Cinderella when all her splendid gown and other finery turned to rags at the stroke of midnight. Our first acquaintance with the villainous Time!