Our private and professional lives have become so fast-paced that effective time management skills are almost a requirement. Without them, you are under constant threat of being overwhelmed. With them, you are in control. So what are they?
time management
Time management is the skill of getting the most out of your time and managing the many different tasks, responsibilities and challenges that need to be addressed every day. Today this is more important than ever. Our professional and private lives have become much more hectic. The speed of communication has increased and distractions lurk behind every corner.
Learning effective time management will help you prevail in this world. It enables you to actively control your life instead of just responding to events and requests. Be proactive, not reactive.
Further below you will find all articles about this topic that have been published on Kreativrauschen.com so far. I have written a few articles on other pages as well, escpecially for my project Focality.
> Time Management App
> A Compendium of Time Management Strategies
> The Time Management Matrix
> Time Management Tools
> Time Management Skills
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So much for Focality, now on to the articles on this site. You may have to scroll down a bit to get to the parts that are not covered by Focality. :)
What tools make you more productive? What do you need to take your personal time management skills to the next level? I have written a new article (for my project Focality) that lists and explains the various types of time management tools. Here are the main categories that the article goes into: Task Managers: Organizing, […]
It is known by many names: The 4 Quadrants of Time Management, Eisenhower Matrix/Box/Principle or just the Time Management Matrix. Stephen Covey’s Time Management Matrix offers a way to easily sort activities into 4 groups along the dimensions of difficulty and importance.
Procrastination is the bane of humanity’s existence. We’re all guilty of putting tasks off for tomorrow that should have been done last week. If you’re one of the people that want to use their time productively and spend a good bit of the day working, you really need to make the most of your time. […]
How many times has it happened that you start some work, got distracted, and then left it mid-way? How many people can accurately guess the time they will take with a certain task? Not many. The underlying reason is simple – distraction and lack of focus. However, there is a solution for this problem – […]
Time management is an exceedingly important skill in today’s environment. We’re being bombarded with tasks, goals, distractions and responsibilities. Feelings of stress and overwhelm are common. Learning effective time management strategies will help you to keep control of your life. Use them to actively manage how you spend your time instead of just reacting to […]
So you have gone through the personal goal setting process and know what you want in life. Now what? How do you actually achieve your goals? Modern technology comes to the rescue. Read on for the best apps to help you achieve goals.
Some time ago I wrote about Using Firewalls to Fight Procrastination. But how do you know which sites to take out with your firewall? MeeTimer can help you there. This extension for Firefox logs in detail on which sites you spend how much time. You can then see in its stats how many work hours […]
The Internet is the perfect tool for procrastination. It is way too easy to get lost in the endless flow of information. Time management becomes a challenge. You can virtually surf the net forever and you will always find some interesting new thing. Abstaining from the net is hard, but many of us already have […]