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 first time management systems during that time.
This might explain why White Belts proliferate in most companies, […]

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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 Blackberry.

 
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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, there are some companies that are thinking about ways to manage email so that only the […]

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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 than the speech he was giving. Like many professionals, however, he has developed the bad habit […]

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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 of the ideas in this book, and I thought that this summary slide was particularly useful.  Of […]

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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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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 day without what I called “Awakeness”
in this post from last week.
It’s the kind of busy-headedness […]

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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 gets it.”  According to the article, he made the following plans back in August…
Obama’s solution was […]

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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 - “
Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle.”  Here is the article in full.
 Awakeness - the Key to Accomplishment
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