Today’s post is brought to you courtesy of childhood memories of my family’s steam pressure cooker. What does a pressure cooker have to do with time management? More than you think! A pressure cooker is used to prepare foods in a relatively short amount of time. Our...
Top 10 List: 10 Tips To Help You Be On Time
Need some assistance in the time management department? Here are 10 tips (five practical and five creative) to help you be on time to your next meeting or appointment: Number 10. Carry or wear a device that keeps time. An oldie but goodie…how can you be on time when...
Time Management Tip: Why A Clock Won’t Keep You On Schedule (and what to do about it)
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on how to manage your time without using a clock. Today I thought I’d continue along that vein and take a somewhat surprising position when it comes to time and time management. That’s right, I’m going to say it: a clock won’t keep...
Organizing Tip: How to Organize Your First Day Back to Work After a Vacation
Sigh, if only that vacation were longer... It sure can be downright difficult going back to work after a long, relaxing vacation. Here are a couple of tips on how to organize your first day of work back from a vacation or holiday. These pointers will help you get back...
Back-to-School 101: Organizing Tip: Set up a Homework Station
Desks and workstations are a given at school, but the same does not automatically hold true at home. Today’s post walks you through how to set up a location from which to do schoolwork, or a homework station: Identify a location. Just like real estate, it’s all about...
Time Management Tip: Six Scheduling Keys
Want to better manage your schedule? Today’s time management tip covers one of the basics of scheduling: securing as much information as possible at the onset when booking a schedule/calendar. That’s right, now’s the time to unleash your inner journalist or detective!...
Time Management Tip: Reining in Blog Reading
If you’re reading this sentence, chances are you enjoy reading blogs. Blogs do have something addictive to them…you start poking around on one blog, look at a blogroll, look at another blog, then another, then another, and realize that you’ve spent hours online...