Stashes for Time Management

Ideas on Time Management

Unable To Handle The Day
If you are unable to physically, mentally or emotionally handle your day’s hectic schedule, be bold and cancel the enti…
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Making Things Flexible
Making things fluid, flexible and natural would instill awareness in you and you will find that your daily activities c…
This scheduling method will boost your productivity and peace of mind
The Approach Of Intuitive Scheduling
Listen to your body and your feelings and find out which activities drain you physically and mentally, and which of the…
This scheduling method will boost your productivity and peace of mind
Benefits Of Intuitive Scheduling
What we have to learn is to find our freedom, and give ourselves permission to do what we want to do. It makes us human…
This scheduling method will boost your productivity and peace of mind
Intuitive Scheduling
This is a heart-centred way of scheduling your daily activities, where you plan your day according to what brings your …
This scheduling method will boost your productivity and peace of mind
Being Productive And Sane
In this new work-from-home reality, where every day is a new day even though it feels the same day, being flexible and …
This scheduling method will boost your productivity and peace of mind
Find your natural habitat
We can learn through experimentation which environments are best suited for us at specific times of the day. Keep tabs …
How to Work Alone
Know when the day is done
A routine is vital to get you to reach a deeper state of mind. Be very clear and deliberate about what you should do, …
How to Work Alone
The ability to face distractions
Solitude can initially make you squirm but later becomes a bedrock for intense concentration and creativity. Deflect di…
How to Work Alone
Going with the flow
Elements to help you reach a state of flow. There are specific goals every step of the way. There is immediate feedbac…
How to Work Alone
Working alone
Being in a space that's free from distractions while managing your time may sound perfect. But working alone is not…
How to Work Alone
Replacing the commute
Many are starting to miss the sanctuary of their car on their long commutes to work, where they could eat in calm or ca…
Why you might be missing your commute
Commuting creates opportunities
Commuting allows employees to engage in some degree of prospection about work. Perhaps the commute also offers an oppor…
Why you might be missing your commute
Transitional buffer
A new study examines the function of the commute as a psychological gateway between home and work. The daily commute s…
Why you might be missing your commute
The stress of commuting
The journey to work is often more stressful than the work itself. Surveys and studies have found that commuting is peop…
Why you might be missing your commute
Keeping up with your colleagues
With all the flexibility comes the responsibility to keep your calendar up to date, so your coworkers will know when yo…
How ‘weird’ schedules can help you get more done working remotely
Once-off weird schedules
Not everyone follows unusual schedules all the time. Many work a standard 9 to 5. But working from home allows you to a…
How ‘weird’ schedules can help you get more done working remotely
Batching for productivity
Batching is a common productivity strategy - group similar tasks together so your brain doesn't tire with too much …
How ‘weird’ schedules can help you get more done working remotely
Early risers and night owls
Early risers may work from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m., take a break to get kids sorted for school, then start work again at 8:30 …
How ‘weird’ schedules can help you get more done working remotely
Flexibility with remote work
Usually, working from home is about flexibility. Every single person will have a different schedule, which will make th…
How ‘weird’ schedules can help you get more done working remotely
Metaphors are cultural
The concept of time reveals the human's capacity for abstract thought. But time is not the only abstract domain, no…
How We Make Sense of Time
The influence of writing
Time as space metaphor shows up in our language and gestures, but also in depictions of external sequences of events. …
How We Make Sense of Time
Thinking of time as space
The parts of the brain used for thinking about space are also used for thinking about time. Studies reveal that people…
How We Make Sense of Time
Spacial concepts
People of all cultures lean on spatial concepts for understanding time, but exactly which spatial metaphors they use ca…
How We Make Sense of Time
The spatial metaphors
Time is difficult to explain, yet we deal with it every day. All people talk of time as "motion on a space," and think …
How We Make Sense of Time
Describing yesterday and tomorrow
Recent research suggests that across all cultures, the concept of time depends on metaphor, known as a conceptual metap…
How We Make Sense of Time
How humans sense time
Humans are different from animals in that we don't sense time only as passing. We dice time into units or think of …
How We Make Sense of Time
Past and future
When English speakers use hand gestures to talk about the past and the future, they thrust a hand over the shoulder for…
How We Make Sense of Time
Reducing Emails And Distractions
Sending and replying to email feels like work, but in reality, it is pseudo-work. Do not be available on email and chat…
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30X Rule
Delegating tasks is a hidden hack that, if used can free you up with loads of free time. Studies show that many knowled…
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Single-Tasking
We all have heard of multi-tasking, but new research shows focused hours are 500 percent more productive. Focusing on a…
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Time Multipliers
Certain habits are time-multipliers. They are simple tools, hacks and work-flows that optimize your work environment an…
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Say No
We need to be open and transparent to our peers and bosses, and refuse certain tasks that seem to take us away from our…
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Remove Your Energy Drains
Incomplete and pending tasks take up space inside our minds. This may include our unfulfilled desires and dreams, con…
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Pay Yourself First
Your ability to use your time depends on you being healthy, stress-free and happy. If you aren’t at your best, your ent…
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Prioritize The Really Important Tasks
Start filling your schedule with the really important tasks, and take care not to put all the time-debt activities back…
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The Planning Fallacy
It states that we are overly optimistic about what we can hypothetically get done in a given day. So we overschedule an…
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Create A Time-Blocking Template
Block your time for specific types of work, not individual tasks. Block your time for core work like coding, designing…
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Track Your Time
You need to find out just where your time is going currently. You can use a pen and paper, a spreadsheet, or an app to …
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Time Debt
The choices we make to ‘borrow’ our personal time to get work done works against us in the long run, just like the mone…
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Keeping the context in mind
One meta-analysis concluded that background music disturbs the reading process and has a small harmful effect on memory…
Does music help us work better? It depends
Skewed perception
Some scientists think that music doesn't help us at all. It's possible that we view the ability to listen to mu…
Does music help us work better? It depends
Altering our mood
The "activation theory" is the idea is that people need a certain amount of mental arousal to function effect…
Does music help us work better? It depends
The benefits of music
There are two possible ways music might be beneficial while working: It makes us feel good, therefore helping us to wo…
Does music help us work better? It depends
Music and motivation
Playing the right music in the office motivates staff. When you're concentrating, you'll want calmer, more rel…
Does music help us work better? It depends
Music and productivity
During World War II, the BBC broadcasted upbeat music in factories twice a day to see if it might step up the pace of w…
Does music help us work better? It depends
Introverts and extroverts in home office
Extroverted people may have a more difficult time working from home without the regular spontaneous office chats. Remot…
Why are some people better at working from home than others?
A lack of boundaries
When work and personal activities are occurring in the same space, there are no cues for you to behave the way you do a…
Why are some people better at working from home than others?
High tolerance to frustration
People with high frustration tolerances are the ones that generally succeed at remote work. And you can take steps to …
Why are some people better at working from home than others?
Lower accountability
Procrastinating is even easier when you have no one looking over your shoulder. Lower accountability can make procrasti…
Why are some people better at working from home than others?
Functioning with lists
We all know for a fact that to-do lists are great: they enable you to be more organized while keeping track of your pro…
If To-Do Lists Are Stressing You Out, Try ‘Done’ Lists Instead
Lists
While everybody is busy doing to-do lists, you might find yourself feeling tired at the very thought of just starting s…
If To-Do Lists Are Stressing You Out, Try ‘Done’ Lists Instead
Old Management Fads
... like the SMART(Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, Time-bound) goals, which are taught in every management…
The Limits of Self-Help Productivity Lit
Divided Attention
There are an endless number of distractions, attention sapping ‘urgent’ tasks and other requests for action (like an em…
The Limits of Self-Help Productivity Lit
We Are On Our Own
In his self-help book "Smarter, Faster, Better", Charles Duhigg observes that we are now masters of our own t…
The Limits of Self-Help Productivity Lit
Systems cannot give meaning
A system shapes your existing motivations. It cannot give you motivation. Many failures of productivity are a deeper p…
Rules for Staying Productive Long-Term
Measuring against your baseline
When you're evaluating a productivity system, the right measurement to make is to find out if you're getting mo…
Rules for Staying Productive Long-Term
The productivity "feeling"
A good productivity system should be productive, not just feel productive. A good productivity system that is working e…
Rules for Staying Productive Long-Term
Dealing with exceptions
Every system will create situations where it no longer makes sense to follow its guidelines. Then one should find a way…
Rules for Staying Productive Long-Term
Counterbalance your worst tendencies
Your productivity system should counterbalance your worst tendencies. Fixed-schedule productivity corrects the tendenc…
Rules for Staying Productive Long-Term