An interesting article in the New York Times entitled”
Lost in Email, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast.”
Their effort comes as statistical and anecdotal evidence mounts that the same technology tools that have led to improvements in productivity can be counterproductive if overused.
The article describes one study that shows that some 28% of a professional’s day is […]

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This is a great article on Tim Ferriss’ blog written by Josh Waitzkin.
Ever since I read the book Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, I have been a believer in the power of focusing on a single task at a time.
At the same time,  the manufacturer’s are churning out more and more reasons to be distracted during […]

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One of the goals of 2Time is to help users create time management systems that last a lifetime.
What does that mean?
Most people start to think about time management when they become overwhelmed by some life change, such as getting married, having a child, being promote, being given additional responsibility, adding a new hobby or making […]

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This sentence is said perhaps thousands of times per day by someone who has just forgotten to take out the garbage, pay a bill, return a phone call or send an email with that phone number you wanted.
It’s the kind of phrase that a novice in time management (or White belt) often says in response […]

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I picked up the following quote from
a post in Tim Ferris’ blog:
Jim — May 29, ‘08 – 10:17 PM
“Another effect of reading and replying to e-mail frequently is that you don’t allow others responses to build up. Which means you may cover the same ground they do (costing you time you didn’t […]

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My agonizing is over — after a few days of heavy thinking I replaced my broken Palm Tungsten T… with a refurbished Palm Tungsten T.
Q. What lead to this particular bout of insanity?
A. Well, in a word it boiled down to “convenience.”
I resisted the temptation to buy the aging (but much newer) […]

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I just read an entry in Steve Pavlina’s blog and he makes some good, in-depth observations about his own attempts to install new habits, such as getting up at 5:00 am each morning.
He has spent some time looking at his own habit patterns, and found different ways to help himself to keep the new behaviors […]

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There are a couple of arguments floating around out that militate against the idea of a Zero Inbox.
In my last post I gave the example of someone who has the problem of having thousands of unread emails.
The first comes from author Tim Ferriss, who has a practice of checking email only once every 1o days. […]

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In the recent argument between the time management gurus mentioned in my prior post, I came across an interesting articles that emphasized the need for a breakthrough in inbox management.
First  off, let me start by saying that it’s not a goal that everyone should seek, and this kind of commitment can only be entered into […]

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A bit-based fight has opened up between the productivity gurus, Tim Ferris of 4 Hour Work Week (4HWW) fame and Mark Hurst, author of the book “Bit Literacy.”
It all started with  an article in Entrepreneur Magazine written by Lena West entitled
Escaping Email Overload.  In the article, Hurst had a few critical words to say […]

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