I am on the search for thought partners for this whole field of time management.
Interestingly, I finally found some research in the area of time management, but it hardly is a fount of new ideas. Instead, it is an empirical study of whether or not time management provides any benefit to the user, in very […]

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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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Submitted by
akalsey on October 11, 2007 - 5:52 p.m.
There’s a story that says Einstein was once asked for his phone number. He walked over to a phone book and started to look it up. When the questioner expressed surprise that someone so smart wouldn’t know his own phone number, Einstein said he didn’t want […]

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One of the messages of 2Time is a difficult one - that users who are not technologically savvy are choosing to limit their productivity.
It might not be obvious as to why this is the case, but one of the major reasons has to do with portability. A user who is unable to travel with their […]

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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 is […]

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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 it […]

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Recently, I did a most interesting test of my personal health on
RealAge.com
What made it remarkable is that it gave me back a list of on-the-point recommendations, and it also gave me back an estimate of my “real age”, which I am happy to report is some 8 years younger than my calendar years.
Once […]

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The
following blogs on productivity are pretty useful to know:
Personal Productivity Required Reading List: 100 Kick-butt Lifehacking Blogs
Lifehacking is all about finding ways to streamline and improve your life. These bloggers can help you do just that, offering clever tricks and tips for making your everyday life more effective. Check them out for some of […]

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