We’ve been hearing for years about the paperless office, and great strides have been made in this direction.  Yet somehow there are still hard copies of documents on desks and scribbled notes everywhere.  Paper calendars continue to sell, and business cards accumulate in stacks and in drawers.
The push in recent years for getting on the electronic bandwagon [...]

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Many of my clients and my audiences at our time management training seminars express dismay at their inability to remember names and events of the past.  Yet these are all highly functioning, working individuals.  The complaints rise with age although there is no associated disease causing these slips.
Now there is a good reason for people [...]

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Do you think you can easily do two or three things at a time?  You probably feel that you are good at multitasking and that you have had a lot of practice.  You might even consider it part of good time management training.  However, how do you feel about the person driving the car next [...]

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Twice a year we’re told to change our clocks–”Spring Forward, Fall Back”–for Daylight Savings Time.
This may seem to be as predictable a ritual as the seasons themselves. But it’s actually a rather fluid concept that was first standardized 120 years ago by railroad executives so they could have an official noon to make their schedules [...]

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Executive Function: assessing, prioritizing, assigning mental functions, tracking multiple activities, reflecting
These are all characteristics that a good executive performs daily. They are also the tasks that emanate from your brain’s prefrontal cortex. This region of your brain is the one that sustains the most damage from prolonged periods of stress.
In our fast-paced daily lives, as [...]

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In a post that I wrote last week about crisis management, I presented some techniques for limiting the pressure of deadlines. Responding to this, one reader commented that it wasn’t useful advice for those “on the front lines who don’t have jobs that come with laptops, travel, and corporate jargon.”
I recognize that not everyone can [...]

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Do you know any time-challenged parents who want to help their children use time productively? There is no question that kids can spend multiple hours per day on the internet, often to the detriment of homework. YouTube is one of the favorite spots.
Now there is another site growing, called TeacherTube, based on the YouTube concept, [...]

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“Your lack of planning should not be my emergency.”

Have you ever wanted to say that to someone?
Could you be guilty of frequently interrupting others with a “Now!” issue?

There is no question that crises do arise from time to time, issues that require everyone to change focus. However they tend to occur much more [...]

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There is an old adage that says if you eat a frog first thing in the morning, the rest of your day looks pretty easy. If you have two frogs to eat, pick the biggest, ugliest one first. Your personal “frog” is the project or activity that:

Yields the most benefit for you in [...]

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51% of small-business professionals end up dreaming about their work.
Of those 51%, 70% turn their work dreams into action items upon waking.

The above study was commissioned by Staples, the office supply store. If you are one of those people who dream about your work, you might suddenly find yourself jolted awake at 2 [...]

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