One of the things that I wished Outlook would do intelligently is to link the contents of a time slots with the next logical time slot.
For example, I wish I could assign individual time demands to a particular kind of time slot, such as time that I spent at home. It would be able to […]

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Email is a problem for everyone who is concerned with being productive. It is a new medium and there is virtually no-one with 20 years of email experience.
Only recently have best practices begun to be developed for this difficult source of information. In the absence of these best practices, users end up with in-boxes of […]

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Neal Fiore has a book that I haven’t read called “
The Now Habit” that seems to be pretty interesting.
I say this because he has developed a schedule for himself that appears to conform to Yellow Belt scheduling, in the 2Time lingo. On his website you can see the
schedule he has created for himself for […]

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I really admire
Steve Pavlina’s blog for the quality and range of ideas that he is able to create and articulate. His
post on creating a personal productivity scaffold is no exception:
He is essentially creating a way of
Reviewing and
Scheduling that includes a slot in the morning to plan, and a slot in […]

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I don’t remember where I first heard or read it - it may have been from Getting Things Done - but the idea of viewing your appointment book as a set of hard and soft items is one that has some value.
As one moves into the ranks of a Yellow Belt, or Green Belt, […]

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One of the challenges I have been facing is how to start the day on the right foot each and every day.
Unfortunately, in Microsoft Outlook XP, there is no way to work with past appointments effectively, which is a real weakness in their system. If they have not been completed, the reminders merely […]

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Put In The Big Rocks First!
In “First Things First,” Stephen Covey tells a story that one of his associates heard at a seminar. The seminar presenter pulled out a wide-mouth gallon jar and placed it next to a pile of fist-sized rocks. After filling […]

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One of the efforts that we at Framework are undertaking this year is that of defining a method of time management that fits the Caribbean tempo and lifestyle.
The reasons why none of the popular approaches used worldwide has become popular in our region are varied and many: too much rigidity, too much technology, not enough […]

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Scheduling is one of the major activities that take place in any time management system.
This entry, therefore, should be read after the entries in the post
Ways to Use a Calendar have been read and throughly digested, for the ideas here to make sense.
Definition
Scheduling is taking a time demand and converting it into a […]

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In
a prior post, I talked about how the most powerful time management system is one that a user designs for themselves. When users know the principles behind a good system they are much better equipped to design a unique approach that works for them.
One area that is often misunderstood is the use of a […]

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