August 2, 2016 How Are Your Priorities? Do you feel you do a good job of prioritizing your day, week, month, year, decade and life? We need a different set of priorities for various time frames, places and people, don’t we? What is important to do at home may not be that crucial at work, and vice versa. What is important with your boss is probably not the same as with your children or spouse. Each day, often each minute or hour, we are constantly prioritizing. What are we going to do with the next minute, next hour, next afternoon? How do we prioritize? Some of this…
October 27, 2009 Just press DELETE on all nonessential activities Have you noticed during this economic downturn that, due to people being laid off from their jobs, companies are trying to do almost the same amount of work with less people? Do you find you have more things to do now than ever? How about in your personal life…have you taken on more responsibilities for things you used to pay someone else to do? Clean your house? Cut your grass? Fix things around the place? What is at a premium here is TIME! Time cannot be made, like money, as there is just a finite amount you have to work…
October 20, 2009 How to Create Your Own Cone of Silence Would you like to manufacture some extra time at work? Try a few of these suggestions: Bring your morning beverage of choice with you when you come to your office in the morning, rather than having to come in, put your things down, and then run to the coffee shop or kitchen to get something. You can be ready to start work immediately when you enter your workspace each morning. Compartmentalize your day. Try to achieve the tasks on your To Do list (you do have one, right? If not, check out my May 20, 2009 blog!) in an efficient…
