Stashes for Time Management

Ideas on Time Management

End the day on a positive note
If you didn’t do everything you planned on doing, don’t beat yourself up about it. Forgive yourself. Show gratitude. ...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
Parkinson's Law
It states that work expands to fit the amount of time allotted to it. For example, if you have 2 days to finish a tas...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
The Zeigarnik Effect
Our brains are hard-wired to keep us thinking about our unfinished tasks until we’ve completed them. This psychologic...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
Set a time to end your workday
... and stick to it. Knowing you have to complete your work by a certain hour will help you finish more work in less...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
The most important task
Use your end-of-the-work-day routine to make it as easy as possible to get started on tomorrow’s Most Important Task ...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
Prepare tomorrow’s to-do list
Doing so at the end of your workday boosts your productivity: It helps you stop thinking about work : writing out a ...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
The procrastination “doom loop”
Confront the things you’ve been putting off. If you keep putting things off, you'll feel guilty and that makes you wa...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
Review your "to-done’s"
Boost your mood and motivation by taking the time to review your completed tasks at the end of each day.One of the ea...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
Clean up your workspaces
End the workday by taking a minute to tidy your desk, save everything you’re working on, and close of all your tabs a...
How Exceptionally Productive People End The Workday
Preserve buffers
Switching tasks and context is difficult. You cannot be efficient if you run from meeting to meeting. If you want to ...
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
Shrink meetings
Limit the number of people in any meeting to eight or fewer, unless the meeting is informational. Ensure that your ...
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
Clean up
Your environment affects your productivity and quality of work. Don't let yourself get distracted by clutter. To he...
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
Organize tasks
A common mistake is to fill your calendar with the wrong tasks.A meeting can break your day into two pieces, each too...
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
Practice mindfulness
Our biggest mistake is how we start the day. Instead of checking email on your phone, try a simple mindfulness practi...
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
Our inability to focus
Two significant challenges are destroying our ability to focus. We are increasingly overwhelmed with distractions fr...
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
How to Use a Weekly/Daily To-Do List
Focus on the Daily List: Once you've decided what chunk of your weekly list to handle, you may put the other tasks ou...
How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time | Scott H Young
Advantages of using a WD system
A WD (Weekly/Daily) system manages your energy. You will get a maximum of work done while leaving yourself time to re...
How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time | Scott H Young
The principle behind the To-Do List
At the end of the week, write a list with everything you want to get done. At the end of the day, write a list contai...
How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time | Scott H Young
Pacing yourself
Trying to get work done uses the same principle as running: You have to pace yourself. Runners that sprint at the beg...
How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time | Scott H Young
Tips to make Niksen effective
In order to keep your effectiveness high while doing nothing, you might want to consider the following tips: F...
The Case for Doing Nothing
Idleness and its benefits
If you have any doubts in what the multiple benefits that idleness can provide you with, just note down the fact that...
The Case for Doing Nothing
Niksen
Whenever you feel stressed and on the edge of a burnout, you might as well try doing...well, nothing. Niksen i...
The Case for Doing Nothing
Turn productivity into a habit
Better productivity requires some work on your side. It may take up to three months to form a new habit. Once it bec...
What is productivity, really?
Look to others
To help you calculate productivity and increase it, find some models of what productivity means and doesn't mean to y...
What is productivity, really?
Your aim with productivity
If you want to increase your productivity, think about what is driving you to do so. What is the purpose that's drivi...
What is productivity, really?
Productivity defined
Being busy and always moving through tasks is not the same as being productive. Productivity is getting the results...
What is productivity, really?
Extra pockets of attention
Take advantage of the periods when you're walking somewhere and make some phone calls. You can use your desk time for...
How to Be a Productivity Ninja: Attention management
Fixes for your attention management issues
Make tiny changes to trick your brain and create additional periods of attention (for example, move to a different p...
How to Be a Productivity Ninja: Attention management
Schedule your work
... based on your attention level.Save difficult and important task for when your attention level is proactive, leave...
How to Be a Productivity Ninja: Attention management
Levels of attention
Proactive attention : you are fully focused and prepared for your most important decisions/ most complex tasks. Activ...
How to Be a Productivity Ninja: Attention management
Limited attention
Your attention is a limited resource and you have to be careful where you are spending it.If you choose to give away ...
How to Be a Productivity Ninja: Attention management
Boss-mode vs worker-mode
Knowledge workers usually have to play 2 roles at the same time - the boss and the worker: They have to choose w...
How to Be a Productivity Ninja: Attention management
Perfection Is Not The Goal
Being an organized person requires a lifestyle change, and is not seasonal. You can't go back to not being organized ...
A time management coach's surprising advice for the overly organized
Tips To Be Productive
Use the way to organize that is most comfortable to you, be it pen and paper or an app. Saying No, and not committi...
A time management coach's surprising advice for the overly organized
Planning vs Doing
If you spend more time planning and organizing than doing, it's time to shift your focus. Don't waste your time ...
A time management coach's surprising advice for the overly organized
Do a to-do list sprint
The hardest part is actually getting started on a task.Ways to get started: Work in sprints to see how much you can ...
How to transform your to-do list into a productivity power tool
Be specific
Don't let your to-do list be vague, undefined, and unclear . Any action on your to-do list must have a particular out...
How to transform your to-do list into a productivity power tool
Put the hard stuff first
We like to put the easy tasks on top of the to-do list because it feels good to finish a task. When you do tha...
How to transform your to-do list into a productivity power tool
Measure a task’s urgency
Break down a master to-do list into four sections: Urgent and important : These tasks should be done today. Not urge...
How to transform your to-do list into a productivity power tool
Give tasks a value
Look over your to-do list and assign every task a value, such as a dollar-per-hour amount that you might have to pay ...
How to transform your to-do list into a productivity power tool
Get clear on what's important
Most people are unaware of their priorities. Our priorities are the things that are most important to us right now. N...
How to transform your to-do list into a productivity power tool
In need of a makeover
A to-do list can be helpful but is often not used successfully. If you end the day with things undone or if you regul...
How to transform your to-do list into a productivity power tool
Manage Your Email
Focus on what's genuinely important in a day and do that, before checking your email. Check the email in time blocks,...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
Change Your Behaviour
Time management practices require a change in behavior: Know your purpose and establish why you need to change, iden...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
Organizing For Action
Organizing for action means creating useful, workable and scalable systems that make us access information and track ...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
Building Relationships
We usually overlook the emotional aspect of working with people while handling tight deadlines. Leaders have to tak...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
Thinking Strategically
The mental domain consists of being able to think strategically, prioritizing between short-term and long-term goals...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
The Four Domains of Time
Time can be managed in four domains: Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Material. This corresponds to the four ke...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
Phantom Workload
Phantom workload looks like real work but results in massive unproductivity and even conflict in an organization. Th...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
Sustainable Productivity
Instead of increasing the number of productive hours, we can focus on getting the right things done in a timely way. ...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
The Pressure Of Time
Most leaders have familiar approaches to managing time: setting goals, planning, delegating, tracking commitments, an...
Managing Your Time as a Leader - The Systems Thinker
Achieving Flow
Set specific goals, that are aligned to your purpose, passions and values. Focus all your attention to the task in fr...
State of Flow: The gateway of creativity and productivity
Defining Flow
Being in a state of flow means being immersed in the activity you are doing that you forget abut the outside world.An...
State of Flow: The gateway of creativity and productivity
“I developed a theory of optimal experience based on the concept of flow—the state in which people are so involved in...
State of Flow: The gateway of creativity and productivity
Find Shortcuts
Save a canned response so you don’t have to draft the same message over and over again. If there's a document you...
Four Secrets Of People Who Finish Their Workweeks On Thursday
Tune Out Distractions
Maximizing every moment of your day means minimizing any kind of distraction.Find a quite spot away from the office n...
Four Secrets Of People Who Finish Their Workweeks On Thursday
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent, and not enough time on what is important.”
Four Secrets Of People Who Finish Their Workweeks On Thursday
Focus On Priorities
Learn the difference between how you’re actually spending your time and how you should be spending your time, between...
Four Secrets Of People Who Finish Their Workweeks On Thursday
Schedule Intentionally
If you want to free up your Friday and have it as a day of uninterrupted time that you can use however you’d like, yo...
Four Secrets Of People Who Finish Their Workweeks On Thursday
A periodic sabbatical
Spending a month away from email can help you question your default distractions.Without email, you have to find othe...
What I learned by taking a month-long break from email