Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
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 repetitive from week …
One of the easiest ways to check whether or not someone is at a higher belt level is to observe carefully how they handle email. What do they have in their in-box? Is the number of emails always kept small? Does email get sent to them that they never reply to? Does email routinely get …
During the recent pilot of NewHabits-NewGoals (the course built on the concepts of 2Time), it struck me that every professional has their own home-grown time management system. They developed it in a trial-and-error fashion, mostly starting when they were in their early teens, and picking up bits and pieces from people they admired along the …
I have just finished listening to the audio book “The 4-Hour Work Week” which I enjoyed immensely, even as I disagreed with some of the points made by the author, Time Ferriss. One chapter is entitled “The End of Time Management”. He argues that one should forget all about time management! Of course, this is …
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One benefit of the 2Time system is that it’s an effective tool for coaching, and even self-coaching. Using the components to look at a professional’s time management system is a little like using a cheat sheet, or diagnostic tool to figure out what the underlying problem is. For example, a user who is a White …
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 …
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 …
I am reading the #1 New York Times Best Seller – The Four Hour Work Week and finding it quite entertaining. As someone who lives in Jamaica, it would seem that I am living the author’s dream to some extent! More on this later, to be sure. One immediate benefit this book has brought me …
I thought that this list, The GTD® Mastery 100 – Checklist for Greatness, was an interesting one, as it uses the idea of a progression of skills from one level to another. The idea of having to work through 100 items is daunting, but it still makes for interesting reading. I do think, however, that …
Neal Fiore has a book that I haven’t read called “The Now Habit” that seems to be pretty interesting. I say this because he has developed a schedule for himself that appears to conform to Yellow Belt scheduling, in the 2Time lingo. On his website you can see the schedule he has created for himself …