Yet another New York Times article caught my attention.
This one, written by Marci Alboher, is about Leisure Time, and it made my mind wander to the years I lived in New Jersey, the times I have visited New York to work and the life I now live in Jamaica.
For cultural reasons, the importance of leisure […]

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The idea of an open door policy has become something like a religious belief. It has gone from a good suggestion to a badge of honor, and is now an established management dogma.
The fact is that the most productive managers DO NOT have an open door policy, and this with good reason. When taken to […]

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By my calculations, September 10, 2008 will be just about 6 months to the day, from today.
Here is a sure-fire way to decide if someone else is skilled at managing their time - set a phone call for September 10th, at 12:30pm.
Someone with a weak time management system close to that of a novice won’t […]

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I was surfing around and found
this Squidoo page that I think describes a very handy method for scheduling that uses only paper and pencil. Or, more accurately, it uses a diary system to manage time.
The creator, Carmen a.k.a. Clutterbugs, rightly makes the point that much of what we do is […]

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Many professionals only maintain lists of items to do, and don’t actually schedule anything other than appointments into their calendars. In the language of 2Time, they may be Green Belts at the skill of
Listing, but Yellow Belts at the skill of
Scheduling.
A typical professional’s schedule is below - let’s say his name is […]

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Recently, I have been more and more careful to protect the first few hours of each working day. In a prior post, I mentioned that I had fallen into some bad habits, and
fallen into the trap of checking email at every spare moment.
What I have also noticed is that my energy is very […]

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One of the more difficult habits to break when using Outlook is hard to change because of how the program is designed.
Here is the typical scenario:

Several pieces of email come into the Outlook in-box
Each of them share a single characteristic, in that they require about ten minutes of work
They have nothing else in common

Here […]

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I have been experimenting with a new skill that I think that I will include as a new habit. It only makes sense, however, for 2Time users at or above the Orange Belt level - those who have begun to use their schedule to manage their time demands.
It comes from the observation that we all […]

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One of the things that I wished Outlook would do intelligently is to link the contents of a time slots with the next logical time slot.
For example, I wish I could assign individual time demands to a particular kind of time slot, such as time that I spent at home. It would be able to […]

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Email is a problem for everyone who is concerned with being productive. It is a new medium and there is virtually no-one with 20 years of email experience.
Only recently have best practices begun to be developed for this difficult source of information. In the absence of these best practices, users end up with in-boxes of […]

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