Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
As I curate the time management research that has been completed by academics around the world, I am seeing where the essential tenets of Time Management 2.0 are being validated in small steps. While I don’t expect anyone to write a paper anytime soon to test these tenets in one complete dissertation or published paper, …
A new set of videos showed up in my feed today entitled “How to Be More Productive.” They are sponsored by http://howtobemoreproductive.com What’s remarkable is that their videos have an uncanny reemblance to the 20 videos that we put together here at 2Time Labs: the Top 10 FAQ’s and SAQ’s About Time Management. Take a look …
Michael Hyatt posted an interesting entry on his blog entitled “How to Create More Margin in Your Life.” In fact, it’s a summary of a book with a similar title by Richard Swenson called “Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives.” I haven’t read the book, but it wisely advises professionals …
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Our Open House is in full swing and people are registering in the Free and Plus programs as speak. It’s an exciting moment in the history of 2Time Labs! On Thursday night (Oct 6th), the adventure continues with a teleclass entitled “Breakthroughs You Can Use.” I’ll be sharing how you can use the findings on …
A major focus of Wu’s research as outlined in Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management: practices to enhance calendar tool design, is on the paucity of tools that exist to manage our schedules. She decries the fact that electronic calendars do little more than mimic paper calendars, and offer little functionality in important areas. She …
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I’m still working through the first chapter of Dezhi Wu’s book “Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management,” but it’s already leading to some interesting places. She used four criteria to characterize individual time management quality: planning meeting deadlines sensing a lack of time control engaging in procrastinating She found great differences between good and bad …
In earlier posts, I stepped into the future and imagined what it would be like to have a calendar that sat inside your watch, and projected a calendar in front of you in the form of a virtual touch-screen that you could manipulate at will. It would require a skill that I define as an …
I found another of Cal Newport’s gems that fits quite well into the 2Time way of thinking. Getting Creative Things Done: How to Fit Hard Thinking into a Busy Schedule. In this post he makes the point that the best way to get quality, creative work done is to set aside dedicated time in one’s …
I read an interesting post written by Cal Newport over at the 99% blog entitled “A Day Without Distraction: Lessons Learned from 12 Hours of Forced Focus.” The author makes a significant change in his time management system, by adopting the practice of working only in 30 minute increments. While the 30 minute block is …
An avid reader of this site sent me the following comment: There is one thing that stands out to me, however, and that is that you seem to link using paper with using memory. I write everything down so that I don’t have to use my memory. Listing can be done electronically too and if …