Archive for the 'Time Management' Category

Are you ready for PRIME TIME?

One of the key concepts of Personal Productivity Principles is the concept of PRIME TIME. Every time you have a task to do, you have to weigh the time/cost – value equation against your own “productivity expectation” and determine WHEN to do it. PRIME TIME is best explained with a telemarketing/sales example: PRIME TIME = […]

Procrastination

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Whenever I see or read quotes (or jokes) like this, they make me laugh while at the same time wonder if people get the REAL MESSAGE. I know too many people who procrastinate and self-sabotage their career and success. They are their biggest obstacles to just […]

Productivity Tip

Get what you want accomplished before you’re too busy to remember what you wanted to do.  

The power of why

Today’s blog post is priceless and timeless. Priceless because it can be life-changing and timeless because it dates back several hundred ago and it remains timely and relevant to this day… This was submitted to me by Mark Mackenzie of The Graffiti Eaters. When Beethoven was 26, he started to lose his hearing.  It began […]

Time Versus Life Management

In my line of work, I come across two types of people. Type 1 wants to make money, achieve something, do whatever it takes. Type 2 wants what everyone calls work-life balance because they have achieved ‘enough’ and realise without balance, there is imbalance and that’s not good. The quote below is a foundational, guiding […]

Ignore this to do list!

Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning List 1: Your Focus List (the road ahead)What are you trying to achieve? What makes you happy? What’s important to you? Design your time around those things. Because time is your one limited resource and no matter how hard you try you can’t work 25/8. List 2: […]

Get More Done By Working Less

This is a concept we covered in detail at our latest Exponential Extravaganza. Easier said than done, you have to have a time/life management system to make the concept a reality. A recent article in Inc Magazine demanded you stop working more than 40 hours a week. The article revealed that you may think you’re […]

Willpower

I have mixed feelings about willpower and it’s importance in goal setting and achievement. The main reason is that if you have a clearly articulated goal, outcome or dream you want to achieve that really excites you, you don’t need any willpower to get it done. Willpower to me is an excuse for impotent goal […]

Time Management Tip: The 1 Touch Rule

Back in the days before the Internet, there was a time management concept I heard about called the “1 Touch Rule”. Simply stated, it meant that when a paper came into your IN Tray (or on your desk), you were supposed to deal with it the FIRST time you touched it, hence the name – […]

Get More Done By Doing Less

I know what you’re thinking… This is just another motivational play on words. It’s not. I mean it, I’m dead serious. This is one of the most important time management lessons I learned early on in my career. When I got out of university and the whole world lay in front of me and my […]