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 as an Orange Belt.
Today, I was checking the recent tweets on time management, and heard this […]

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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 on to the email program as a nifty way to keep track of appointments.
Users who have […]

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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 tackle an increasing number of time demands.
As I have mentioned in other parts of my […]

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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 simple matter of dragging the item to the day in the calendar.  Outlook automatically opens up […]

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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 the idea to another level, as you’ll see.
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It’s taken from a comment made to a blog […]

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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 remember when I finally figured out that “setting priorities” has a funny way of becoming nothing more than window dressing.
I had  a job in an engineering organization that used an elaborate system of priorities to figure out who should get the highest raise each year.  The joke was that once the elaborate engineering was […]

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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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Here in Jamaica, as you can imagine, we are glued to our television sets watching our countrymen win an unprecedented number of medals.
We are a famously proud people, and right about now we are ready to burst with pride!
Traffic halts, television sets appear in offices and phones buzz across the world as productivity in Jamaica […]

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