In an organized office, treat your social networking time the same way you would a seminar on time management or any other business activity. Would you take a whole work day, or even two or three every month (the average amount of time an American employee spends on the computer at work) without learning or getting something valuable? Would you be able to explain that activity to your boss?

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Sometimes in life, it pays to skip all the prologue and get right to the things that matter most. With that in mind, let me offer a handful of high-impact time management tips that could make an immediate and profound difference in your personal life and career. There are lots of things you can do to be more productive and get more out of your days.

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If you work on the things that are really most important to you first thing in the day, the urgent things will still get finished. They will because they have to. It is a known time management technique that we often overlook.

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I like the idea of uniforms in many fields.  It makes that daily “What do I wear?” decision easier, and you know it is appropriate for the occasion.  However now there are even more pluses that can be built into work clothing, thanks to some incredible technological advances. These add up to good time savers, both in [...]

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To Get More Out of Your Day, Do More With Your Space Is a messy office the sign that you don’t have enough time to get everything on your project list finished… or the cause of it? Granted, the two often go hand-in-hand, but it’s amazing how many men and women don’t see a problem [...]

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Listen to any career development expert for long, and you’re bound to hear the advice to keep up on trade magazines and books in your industry. It’s a good idea. Talk to any person who has been wildly successful, and they’ll point to continuous learning as a main reason that they were able to get [...]

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As you work on New Year’s resolutions, I’d like to offer one suggestion for your list… something that you won’t find in a lot of traditional time management spaces, but that can make a big difference in your lifestyle: try bringing your lunch to work for a while. If you are thinking that this doesn’t exactly [...]

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Every year, the major accounting and consulting firms release new sets of research and statistics that show how many billions of dollars in productivity are lost to American companies through fantasy football, social media, and other common workplace distractions. But while companies are busy trying to figure out ways to stop employees from engaging in [...]

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Is your morning routine helping you to hit the day running… or stopping you from being as productive and creative as possible? Even though most of us understand intuitively that our personal and professional lives have a strong effect on one another, we often fail to make the connection in the day-to-day sense – especially [...]

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As we all try to accomplish more with less time, it is vital to maximize the resources we have at hand.  One way is to recognize and develop the skills of administrative assistants.  Whether you are fortunate to have this assistance, or you are the administrative professional, or you do not have extra help but are doing [...]

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