Michael, the author of Black Belt Productivity, make a compelling case to read the new book by Dave Crenshaw entitled “The Myth of Multi-Tasking.”
He interviews the author, who shares the gist of the ideas contained in the book.  Essentially, he argues that multi-tasking is something that humans are incapable of doing well, and in our […]

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I recently got a little too happy when I found a game on CNet.com that claimed to be a “time management game.”
The reason for my premature celebration is that I have been trying to find a way to help participants in my 2-day and online programs to practice the 11 fundamentals in some way.  I […]

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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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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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One thing I long for, from my office in Jamaica., is a community of practice in this field of time management.
I remember once when I had the chance to visit the offices of Innovation Associates, the firm started by Peter Senge. They impressed me with their focus on learning, and how seriously they […]

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I was a bit startled to see the New York Times article by the above title, as I had just finished leading a 2-day program in Trinidad called “NewHabits-NewGoals.”
(It uses the 2Time principles to help people build their own time management systems.)
The author, Janet Rae-Dupree, shares the discovery that habits can be used […]

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Note: GTD refers to the book or approach called
Getting Things Done developed by David Allen.
In an interesting post at
Matthew Cornell’s blog, he makes the point that GTD is difficult to be reduced to a lighter version, because it is packed so tightly. In other words, the system cannot be made […]

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During the recent pilot of
NewHabits-NewGoals (the course built on the concepts of 2Time), it struck me that every professional has their own home-grown time management system. They developed it in a trial-and-error fashion, mostly starting when they were in their early teens, and picking up bits and pieces from people they admired along […]

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This is quite a good article entitled
Installing a new habit and breaking an old one by Stephanie Burns on the practice of changing habits.
In 2Time, all progress hinges on a keen self-knowledge of how to change one’s habits. We are all different, and respond to different sets of stimuli. What we […]

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I happen to be a part-time, amateur, middle-of-the-pack triathlete.
Since 1997 I have been competing in races that involve a swim, bike and run at a variety of distances, the longest of which was an iron-distance race I did that included a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and a 26.2 mile run.
In this […]

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