You Need To Start Tracking Your Time
Five simple elements are all you need for a fast and successful planning process: Review your past week for lessons learned. Get clarity on what’s really important (versus what seems important) and decide on your one priority for the week. Take an accurate inventory of your time supply. Ruthlessly triage the demands (or bids) for your time. Match t
... See moreDemir Bentley • Winning the Week: How To Plan A Successful Week, Every Week
The third tactic I suggest is to be liberal with your use of task blocks. Deploy many throughout your day and make them longer than required to handle the tasks you plan in the morning. Lots of things come up during the typical knowledge worker’s day: Having regularly occurring blocks of time to address these surprises keeps things running smoothly
... See moreCal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Because we have a limited amount of time and energy, if we want to get good, we have to allocate those resources effectively. And to do that we have to know how not to waste our time polishing turds
Visakan Veerasamy • on scaffolding
“If you don’t save a bit of your time for you, now, out of every week,” as she puts it, “there is no moment in the future when you’ll magically be done with everything and have loads of free time.” This is the same insight embodied in two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each d... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Since most of us aren’t even aware of how much time daily job maintenance takes up, Glei suggests doing a productivity audit once or twice a year: for a week or two, record what tasks you’re working on, for how long, and where the big distractions lie.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
to work on your most important project for the first hour of each day, and to protect your time by scheduling ‘meetings’ with yourself, marking them in your calendar so that other commitments can’t intrude. Thinking in terms of ‘paying yourself first’ transforms these one-off tips into a philosophy of life, at the core of which lies this simple ins
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