by Harold Taylor | Sep 30, 2015 | General Time Management, Technology
A merging of high-tech and high-touch Hand-held electronic computers can boost productivity immensely. But they are computers, not planners. Don’t throw away the kitchen sink just because you buy a dishwasher. With a hard copy planner you can see your entire week,...
by Harold Taylor | Sep 14, 2015 | General Time Management
Never judge a book by its birthdate In one of my articles I mentioned my love of books and my tendency to hang onto them. I have been criticized more than once for citing time management reference books that were over ten years old – as though ideas had a “Best...
by Harold Taylor | Sep 7, 2015 | General Time Management
You can’t have everything; but you can have anything It’s a life of trade-offs. If you pay someone to cut the grass while you work late at the office, you’re trading one job for another. If you’re paid overtime, you might come out ahead in the...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 31, 2015 | General Time Management, Stress
Time to sharpen ourselves Time management experts for the last 100 years or so have been using the analogy of a woodsman chopping down trees who worked harder and harder to get more work done in a day. In competition with another woodsman who consistently outperformed...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 24, 2015 | General Time Management, Technology
Packrats and computers don’t mix The electronic packrat is here. It had to happen eventually. It’s so tempting to keep everything that you have ever written, received or downloaded because they consume no visible space, can be stored instantly and are hidden from the...
by Harold Taylor | Aug 20, 2015 | General Time Management
It takes time to save time Time Investments are those activities that eventually free up more time than they consume. For example, many people fail to plan because planning takes time. As a result, they lose more time battling crises than the planning would have...
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