In Bit Literacy, the author makes a brilliant insight, which confirms for me that the book is probably 3-5 years ahead of its time.
He quotes a book by Richard Saul Wurman from 1989 titled Information Anxiety: “One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know […]

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It’s a difficult case to make — time management is the result of well-executed habits, and people who find themselves stuck in a rut when it comes to this part of their lives will never be able to improve their systems unless they learn to teach themselves new habits.
This is a tough lesson to learn […]

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I came across the following post from the Success Making Machine website that refers to a podcast by David Allen in which he describes the low adoption rate of time management.  It’s titled (in part)
David Allen on GTD’s Low Adoption Rate.
In the podcast, Allen admits that there’s a very low adoptation rate of people […]

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On a teleconference today, the attendees and I talked about the need to be more disciplined in order to change one’s time management practices.
I thought about it for a moment and then I had a different thought.
A year ago, I  created a worksheet for each to help me implement a number of new habits.
Essentially, I […]

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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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From time to time, a user of a time management system may find themselves “falling off the wagon,” neglecting to perform one or more of the critical habits that underlie the 2Time approach.
For example, they might forgo manual capturing, and instead try to remember everything  without writing anything down.
Or, they  might allow their capture points, […]

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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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I read an interesting post on the topic of the kinds of things that one should look to do on a daily basis.
When I found it, I realized that it covered some of the things I wanted to write in a post, on  the topic of my own daily routine.
It’s  a simple post, but I […]

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I made a small change in one of my habits that I don’t recommend.
It’s not that it’s a bad change — far from it — it’s NOT the case that I, all of a sudden, decided to do without my favorite capture point.
The story is a simple one.  I started a project that has a […]

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I recently wrote an article on the futility of trying to manage one’s time, instead of one’s habits.
I was asked by the folks over at Simpleology.com to address the mistake that many people make when it comes to time management.  The article entitled
Quit Managing Time and Get Some Peace of Mind can be found […]

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