Time-Management  

Why are you so busy? Do you really have too much work? Is work so important to you that you'll sacrifice just about anything in your life to get the job done? Even if it's at the expense of your health and your relationships?

If you find these questions disturbing then ...read more

Do you remember the bumbling Detective Columbo on TV? Well, you’ll probably be glad to hear that he’s goofing his way through case after case quite nicely in reruns all over the world.

Columbo was famous for seeming utterly confused, about to leave the opulent compound of a rich bad guy ...read more

Communicating to Save Time

You may be tired of hearing rhetoric about how everyone needs to improve communication skills. However, are you aware that how you communicate can have a direct impact on your time? Clear communication is often the first step in ensuring that activities are finished correctly and on ...read more

#1 Time management "systems" often fail because they are born of perfectionism and unrealistic expectations.

For instance, some people don't initiate a time management approach until they're already falling behind in their work; they undertake time management as a means of catching up.

Their initial plans tend to cram in everything they ...read more

The average daily commute to work and back home is one hour. That means on average you are spending 5 hours on the road a week. Or roughly 20 hours on the road a month. Or 240 hours on the road a year! What do a ...read more

Play a little now. You receive a check for $86,400. You have just 24 hours to spend it. How do you decide what you will spend it on? Do you spin a wheel? Do you throw darts? How do you decide what to spend your new found fortune on? ...read more

The sheer amount of paper that I get on any given day is enormous. I get handed reports from my employees. I get handed reports from vendors and distributors. I get incoming faxes. I print off emails. I print off my own reports. I get handed various memos and lists ...read more

Marie sees a job in the classifieds that she really wants; it suits her to a T.

But she can’t bring herself to call for additional information, as the ad requires, fearing that she’ll make a mistake or sound foolish or fail to impress.

So, she rehearses the call, over and over, ...read more

In this fast paced world we constantly have more and more demands placed on our time. And it seems the closer we get to our goals, the more and more things we have to get done each day.

With only so many hours in the day it is impossible to get ...read more

I'm having a Monday. Oh, not a commonplace Monday involving skipping your shower to make a early meeting, running over the trash can at the end of the driveway with the minivan, followed by 90 minutes in crawling traffic and highlighted by a double-double down your drawers just before you ...read more