Category Archives: Articles

Procrastination Article – A Point I Missed

I wrote an article for the StepCase LifeHack website on the topic of procrastination after getting a bit pissed that the word was getting a bad name! (If you read the article by clicking at the link below you’ll get … Continue reading

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“I Don’t Need Time Management”

I don’t often post a copy of my ezines that I reserve for those on my mailing lists, but this month I’m making an exception. I recently had a conversation with a colleague who kept missing deadlines while insisting that … Continue reading

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New 2Time eZine on the Failure of Time Management Systems

I just wrote a new article for the 2Time eZine on the reasons why time management systems fail. It’s something  that I haven’t seen any of the gurus talk about, and it may be because the explanation isn’t something they … Continue reading

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A User’s System for Daily Organizing

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 … Continue reading

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Time Management 2.0

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 … Continue reading

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Financial Upheavals and Better Time Management

The recent financial upheavals have many, many people in the US scared about the future. There is a feeling that things are spiraling out of the control of the average citizen, and that deeper, more chaotic forces have taken over.   … Continue reading

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Component/Fundamental #11 – Reviewing v2

A critical skill used in any well-functioning time management system is that of reviewing and improving. Definition Reviewing is the skill of looking over both the contents of the time management system AND its functioning, with a view to preventing … Continue reading

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Component #10 – Warning v2

No user’s system is perfect, and all systems are liable to fall apart at the seams when pressure hits and certain practices (like Reviewing) fall by the wayside. Definition What a smart user at a high level will do is … Continue reading

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Component/Fundamental #9 – Switching v2

One of the most important tasks that a user of any time management system must perform is to switch from one task to another. While this may seem like a simple action, the more capable users include practices that are … Continue reading

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Component/Fundamental #8 – Interrupting v2

Definition In the book titled “Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author talks about the optimal psychological state – one in which a person gets lost in the activity at hand. They get lost in time, and experience a kind of … Continue reading

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