It used to be that time management was a problem that needed to be solved.
“I have a problem with time management” is a common complaint that many professionals have.  It leads them to go looking for solutions of an instant variety.  For some it takes the form of a time management system that someone else […]

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Do type-A-moms need their own time management system?
Apparently they do, according to Lisa Douglas of the type-a-mom blog.
She’s written an interesting post diagnosing the needs of this particular group of women, and has come up wtih an approach that is tailored to their specific situation.  Given that they are “type-A” people, they have lots of […]

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I remember when I finally figured out that “setting priorities” has a funny way of becoming nothing more than window dressing.
I had  a job in an engineering organization that used an elaborate system of priorities to figure out who should get the highest raise each year.  The joke was that once the elaborate engineering was […]

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On the blog for WE magazine for women, I found an entry that is linked to an article on a Simple, Effective Approach for Time Management.
Teresa Morrow has come up with a way of using list and schedules together to plan the day, and has taken the extra step of documenting it.
She’s clearly thought about […]

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I just read a great post over at the Web Worker Daily Blog.
It essentially has to do with
Capturing in one’s inbox, and how using Outlook has lead to very different ways of maintaining a
Zero Inbox than using Gmail.
The post makes a distinction between Filers and Finders, and how people use each of these […]

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I just found a most interesting set of corporate guidelines.
It comes from a marketing company called Sandia, in a document entitled “
Being More Productive: Working more effectively will greatly benefit our clients, the agency and yourself.”
The document describes 16 ideas for its employees on how to increase productivity, ranging from #16 - “Do not carry […]

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One of the definitions of
the Web 2.0 phenomena reads as follows:
A term to generally describe web sites and services where the content is shaped partially or entirely by the users (instead of being read-only and published by a sponsoring company)
The 2Time blog is built on the idea that something similar is happening in the […]

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I have been considering coming up with a new name for my blog.
Up until now, I have used the word “system” to describe the 2Time approach, but am starting to think that I have it all wrong.
I have never wanted 2Time to replace GTD, Covey or any other particular system, but instead to support them […]

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I came across an interesting post by Raj Dash over at Freelance Switch.
In response to the shortcomings of other time management systems, he has created his own time management system.
This is a post worth reading, even if the system he has created doesn’t work for you.  I think it’s a glimpse of things to come […]

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It’s happened to all of us… we are in what we think is a useful conversation, when the person we are talking with, suddenly  switches over to their Blackberry, or cell phone.
In the moment, they  make a decision that the unknown call or email that has just come in is more important than the conversation […]

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