Category Archives: Flow

Top 10 Ways to Use Your Down Time More Effectively

By Emily Thomas If you feel pretty confident with your time management skills, you may already use to-do lists, calendars, goal-tracking charts and alerts or alarms to keep you focused and driven during your work or school day. But what … Continue reading

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Multitasking Peaks During the Teen Years

This is a great article that makes the point that our ability to multi-task increases during our teen years before it starts a steady decline in our mid-30′s. Interesting, because as far as I can tell, most professionals develop their … Continue reading

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Don’t Buy a Gadget, Change a Habit

I wrote another article for the Stepcase LifeHack website with the above title. I also called it: Putting the “P” in PDA Productivity, and it’s based on my encounter with a guy using the urinal at Laguardia while using his … Continue reading

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Software Managed Interruptions

As I mentioned in prior posts, it’s quite important for a user of the 2Time approach to appreciate the goal of getting into the Flow state as often as possible. This requires a minimum of interruptions, and luckily for us, … Continue reading

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Speechus Interruptus

During a speech to the National Rifle Association during the Presidential campaign of 2008, Rudy Guiliani stopped to answer a cell phone call. Obviously, from the tone of the conversation he had with his wife, it was much less important … Continue reading

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A Summary of Flow – the Goal of Time Management

The book, Flow, is one that I refer to often in my thinking about time management. I recently heard a wonderful presentation of the author of the book on the Ted website, given by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. It’s a great summary … Continue reading

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Rudeness or Poor Time Management Skills

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 … Continue reading

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Where Did the Day Go?

On yesterday’s “Obama post” the article mentions what it’s like to get to the end of a day wondering what the heck just happened. I didn’t make the connection until now, but it’s exactly what happens when we complete a … Continue reading

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Obama Gets it

I just read an interesting article that looks at the time management and productivity tactics being used by the presidential candidates. I am happy (as an Obama supporter from the moment I read his first book) to say that “he … Continue reading

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Awakeness

I started using a strange word, awakeness, in an attempt to describe a quality that I have witnessed in the most productive people I have met. I recently dug up the post from the blog where 2Time actually started – … Continue reading

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