Category Archives: Tips

Lifelong Learning — A Way to Think About Time Management

Posted on September 9, 2009 by fwade_admin

There’s simply no way to create a great time management system from bits and pieces of tips dug up from here and there. But that doesn’t stop us from trying, does it? A quick search of Twitter for the phrase … Continue reading →

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Instant Time Management Improvement! With No Effort!!!

Posted on July 30, 2009 by fwade_admin

I have become an avid, daily user of Twitter, and from TweetDeck  I have an ongoing search that updates itself continuously, letting me know when someone has tweeted using the phrase “time management.” I just checked the results of the … Continue reading →

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Meetings and Precious Time

Posted on January 22, 2009 by fwade_admin

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Toss Away (Some of) the Tips

Posted on August 10, 2008 by fwade_admin

Awhile back I wrote a manifesto for publication on the ChangeThis.com website that was entitled “The New Time Management: Simply Focus on the Fundamentals and Toss Away the Tips.” I have not changed my mind about the value of the … Continue reading →

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Top 100 List of Productivity and Life Hack Blogs

Posted on March 25, 2008 by fwade

I think the following list of top internet resources might be somewhere that I should be aspiring to appear with this blog. In any case, it’s a good list made up of the absolute best thinking to be found anywhere … Continue reading →

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Outlook and other Tools

Posted on March 24, 2008 by fwade

I’m not a big fan of lots of tips and fancy tools for professionals that don’t use the fundamentals, but sometimes they can be a lot of fun to play around with! So, I present this interesting list of tools … Continue reading →

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Open Door Policy?

Posted on March 18, 2008 by fwade

The idea of an open door policy has become something like a religious belief. It has gone from a good suggestion to a badge of honor, and is now an established management dogma. The fact is that the most productive … Continue reading →

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The Four Hour Work Week: Forget About Time Management

Posted on January 9, 2008 by fwade

I have just finished listening to the audio book “The 4-Hour Work Week” which I enjoyed immensely, even as I disagreed with some of the points made by the author, Time Ferriss. One chapter is entitled “The End of Time … Continue reading →

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Blogs on Productivity

Posted on November 9, 2007 by fwade

The following blogs on productivity are pretty useful to know: Personal Productivity Required Reading List: 100 Kick-butt Lifehacking Blogs Lifehacking is all about finding ways to streamline and improve your life. These bloggers can help you do just that, offering … Continue reading →

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A Simple Technique to Overcome Procrastination

Posted on November 1, 2007 by fwade

From JimGibbon: One Simple Technique to Help You Overcome Procrastination and Start Writing Now August 5th, 2006 | Productivity For the last three weeks I’ve been using something called “contingency management” to write more, and more consistently, than at any … Continue reading →

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