Time Management Strategies

There is a legendary story that in the 1920’s, Charles Schwab (at the time one of the wealthiest individuals in the United States and founder of Bethlehem steel) wanted to get more done each day for himself and his executive staff. He was approached by Ivy Lee, a public relations expert, who told him a […]

You probably already make a list of your “to-dos”. If you don’t, then you definitely need to. Why do you create a to-do list? Well, it’s simply too hard to remember everything that you have to do. If you don’t write it down, you will probably forget it or remember it at the wrong time […]

If you have a complex life, you probably have some kind of to-do list. Or at least you at one time experimented with a to-do list. But sometimes it just feels all too difficult. You look at your list and think “yuck, I don’t want to deal with that”, or there might be some items […]

There’s no surprises in a NY Times article post it says: “Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave”. In short, our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. As the article goes on to say, there’s a great deal of evidence to […]

Email can be a huge distraction when you’re trying to complete a project. Most of us could be completely focused on a task and then that `bing’ will sound. Well, just like Pavlov’s dog, we open up our email software to see what bit of instant gratification is in our email box. Each time that […]