Posts Tagged ‘schedule’
Considerations for Back to School Schedules – Productivity Tips
Whether you have school-age children or not, there are scheduling factors to take into consideration with the start of the upcoming school year just around the corner. In the past, I shared these back-to-school considerations and recommendations later in August, but given that more and more school districts are starting much earlier than the once-traditional…
Read MoreProject Management Tips – 5 Key Planning Components
If you think about it, nearly everything we do at work or in our personal lives requires project management. If a task requires more than one step, and most especially if someone else needs to be involved, project management principles should kick in to make for smoother sailing. One key principle of project management…
Read MoreWhat is Time Blocking or Time Boxing?
Whether you call it time blocking or time boxing, the overall concept boils down to this: You make appointments with yourself to focus on certain subjects or tasks. Here are a few keys to time blocking or time boxing: Know your professional and personal priorities. This should drive your decisions. Determine how much time you…
Read MoreChange Your Schedule, Change Your Life
Do you remember the television show, The X-Files? FBI Agent Mulder – with a mind open to everything possible – investigated alien sightings, the supernatural, and the seemingly unexplainable. His partner, Agent Scully, was a medical doctor who didn’t readily accept paranormal (aka “out there”) hypotheses and instead sought scientific proof and explanations for each…
Read MoreHow to Work from Home with Rambunctious Children in the House
You might be taken aback by a title that contains the phrase work with rambunctious children, but this topic has come up during different client sessions and seminars. You can substitute the word rambunctious with other adjectives like active, hyper, curious, free-spirited, bored, ADHD, ADD, creative, wild…. No matter which term you use, unless your…
Read MoreHave you considered using your navigation app in this way?
Before navigation app options on your SMART phone were invented, there were TomTom and Garmin. Remember those little guys? You had to plug them into your cigarette lighter and figure out how to mount them on your dashboard or windshield. You needed to have your maps updated and downloaded before you got into the car.…
Read MoreTo Do Lists – How to Get It All Done (Part 2)
In last week’s post about how to get it all done when it comes to do lists, I discussed two basic steps you can take in order to create realistic lists: Determine Needs vs Wants Implement Ghost Tasking Now it’s time to look at two “kick it up a notch” steps you can take to…
Read MoreWhen Is the Best Time to Work Out?
Are you wondering when is the best time to work out? This is usually a New Year’s Resolutions question. Folks ask this at the beginning of the year, then attempt to make a lot of changes at once, and then they fail. But if you’re asking this question at a different time of year, then…
Read MoreDistractions and Scheduling – How to Improve Your Time Management Skills
Writer Laurie Huff of Quo Vadis interviewed me about how to improve time management skills. Since it’s information that everyone can benefit from, I thought I’d share a snippet of the interview where I answered questions about distractions and scheduling: These days when people are so busy and tasks are coming at them from all…
Read MoreTime management tip – How do you schedule the unexpected?
After reading my blog about “Compression socks, gin and a magnet,” a few folks wanted to know some time management tricks for how I managed my schedule when unexpected incidents arose. The first step is to not
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