Business people and professionals around the world are shackled by the status quo or the day-to-day grind. The first step to breaking out of those chains is to believe that you can achieve so much more – go on, I dare you, play a bigger game! Share & Bookmark:
How many meetings do you attend in a week? A month? A year? Of all those meetings, how many are vital to the work you do? So much time and productivity can be lost by the seemingly endless maze of meetings that entangle many professionals. Today’s tip is short and sweet – before you confirm [...]
Tags: Energy management, Meetings, personal time management, procrastination, time management strategies, time management techniques, time management tools, tips for time management
Familiar with the 80/20 rule? It is the idea that 80% of the most important things to be done in a day can be achieved through 20 percent of your effort/time. So what is happening during the rest of the day? How much time can we save by looking at how we do what we [...]
Tags: Energy management, personal time management, procrastination, Time management, time management strategies, time management techniques, tips for time management
Are you all too familiar with the feeling of having to finish that next piece of work today? Do you feel obliged to start work early, stay late and/or sacrifice your weekends? Have you convinced yourself that a catastrophe will occur if you don’t get through all your work asap? If this sounds like you then it [...]
Tags: Energy management, personal time management, Time management, time management strategies, time management techniques, time management tools, tips for time management, work/life balance; time out; time management; energy management
How often do you hear people say, ‘I’ve left so many messages (or sent so many emails) for ….. and he doesn’t reply. He’s so slack!’ Perhaps you’re trying to get a response in a medium that doesn’t work for that person. Is the person you’re trying to reach auditory (likes to hear), auditory digital [...]
Tags: Communication, Email, energy, Energy management, personality types, time management techniques
Does your life often feel so frantic that you feel like you never have time for anything? Are you often running from one thing to another just hoping you haven’t forgotten something in between? I think we can all relate to having had this feeling at some point. That’s why a quote I read yesterday [...]
Tags: energy, life-lesson, Time management, time management strategies, tips for time management, work/life balance; time out; time management; energy management
This hot time-saving tip gets so much positive feedback that I thought it was time to share it with more of you! Some years ago I attended the international National Speakers Convention in Orlando, Florida. From there I headed north, eventually ending up in the incredibly hospitable and very interesting state of North Dakota, staying [...]
Tags: being late, personal time management, procrastination, punctual, Time management, time management strategies, time management tools, tips for time management
I recently had a fascinating discussion with my project manager, Sanchia. She came to me from the diplomatic corp. where the requirements of work and raising her young family were so all-encompassing that she ended up becoming unwell while on an overseas posting. Her whole perspective on life has changed after she had to take a year [...]
Do you feel as though you are always running to, or from, a meeting? Do you sit in meetings wondering why you are there? Or thinking that most of it is not relevant to you? A huge amount of money and time is wasted with unproductive and poorly run meetings, and yet they fill a [...]
posted on June 1st, 2010 by Robyn Pearce
I teach time management because I used to be bad at it! Over the years the path of my life has taken some very interesting turns. First I was a librarian, then a farmer’s wife and mother of six. Next I was a solo mother on government benefits. A few long years later I climbed [...]
Tags: procrastination, Time management, time management tools, work/life balance; time out; time management; energy management