Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
Scheduling is one of the more difficult practices in time management for a user to master. At the same time it offers one of the most important opportunities to professionals who are trying to ensure peace of mind as they tackle an increasing number of time demands. As I have mentioned in other parts of …
Andre over at The Tools for Thought blog has made some fine points about moving from using a calendar to do more than schedule “hard-edged appointments.” These are called “hard-edged” because they simply must be conducted at the prescribed time — such as a dental appointment. (Here is the link to Andre’s article entitled Reclaim …
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 …
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 …
I don’t remember where I first heard or read it – it may have been from Getting Things Done – but the idea of viewing your appointment book as a set of hard and soft items is one that has some value. As one moves into the ranks of a Yellow Belt, or Green Belt, …
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One of the challenges I have been facing is how to start the day on the right foot each and every day. Unfortunately, in Microsoft Outlook XP, there is no way to work with past appointments effectively, which is a real weakness in their system. If they have not been completed, the reminders merely stock …
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Scheduling is one of the major activities that take place in any time management system. This entry, therefore, should be read after the entries in the post Ways to Use a Calendar have been read and thoroughly digested, for the ideas here to make sense. Definition Scheduling is taking a time demand and converting it …
Almost everyone who time-blocks manually for enough time, starts to wonder what it would be like to automate some of the overheard. Wouldn’t it be nice to click a button and see everything instantly assigned to an optimal time slot in their calendar? But does such software even exist? The good news is that it …
Part 9 — Your 13 Self-Made Practices The system you created when you were too young too care, but still use today. The Problem When asked, most people have no idea where their routines for managing future tasks come from. They realize they do something with them on a regular basis, and that it involves some memory plus …
This is a snapshot of the papers in my private library, as of August 20, 2018. These papers cover topics in time-based productivity related to the existence of time management.