Category Archives: Scheduling

An Experiment with Scheduling

I just stumbled across a post over at Matt Cornell’s blog in which he shares an experiment he performed around the discipline of Scheduling. For those readers who are familiar with GTD®,  you will notice that he clearly crosses a … Continue reading

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The Wisdom of Taking Time Off

This article on taking time off caught my eye on Twitter, and it seems to run counter to the general practice of working as hard as possible until you drop. It gives the example of a top management consulting firm … Continue reading

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Higher Skills and Better Results in Scheduling

I found an interesting article on the power of rituals at the Harvard Business Review publishing blog. I took the excerpt article from the post entitled “An 18 Minute Plan for Managing Your Day.” It talks about  the power of … Continue reading

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Steve Ballmer – an Orange Belt in Scheduling?

In an earlier post on the apparent skills of Richard Branson at Capturing, what I didn’t think of doing is estimating the belt level at which he is performing this particular Fundamental. In retrospect, it seems as if he’s operating … Continue reading

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Time Zones and Outlook Problems with Scheduling

In an earlier post entitled: Outlook’s Shortcomings 5 -Scheduling, I described one of the problems with Outlook — it’s not designed to help a user to use it’s calendar function to manage their daily activities. Instead,  it was only added … Continue reading

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Outlook’s Shortcomings 5 – Scheduling

Scheduling is one of the more difficult practices in time management for a user to master.  At the same time it offers one of the most important opportunities to professionals who are trying to ensure peace of mind as they … Continue reading

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Converting Email into Scheduled Items

Ever since I learned that I could take an email and immediately transform it to an item in my schedule with its own start and end time, I have engaged in the habit almost daily. In Outlook 2007 it’s a … Continue reading

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Following the Rhythms of Life

Now and again, I come across an article that I don’t quite know what to do with. To be sure, I like the idea of setting a daily schedule that takes into account one’s daily rhythm. This article, however, takes … Continue reading

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The Three Ingredients of a Daily Plan

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 … Continue reading

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A Small, New Habit

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 … Continue reading

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