Whenever we have surveyed our OfficeTime users, we find that “Email” is always the biggest time waster. This Readers Digest article bears that truth out, along with strategies for improving your time management by not wasting so much time with managing your inbox. According to the article, constantly clearing that inbox wastes…
How to Actually Manage Your Time…
People make intricate plans for diets, businesses, or world travel and, well, none of it happens. It’s a pleasant fantasy. If you want results instead of fantasies, the first step is to start executing. According to management guru Peter Drucker, execution starts by mastering your time. In this Better Humans post, Drucker’s time management method is…
5 Tips for Home Office Productivity
You may be one of the thousands of OfficeTime users working from a home-based office. Productivity at home requires a different level of commitment and focus than working in a leased office space or in a corporate office. While working from home enables you to get closer to achieving the perfect work/life balance, being…
Making the Most of Your Time…
OfficeTime users are very focused on smart time management. We know you are making the most of your minutes, which is why you know tracking your time is vital. One area that may get overlooked when we consider “time killers” in the workplace is the culture that we as business owners instill in our businesses….
Productivity is “Feeling the Bern” as Political News Coverage Sucks Away Workday Time
We asked over 1,700 professionals and small business owners as part of our annual “Time Killers” survey, and discovered that email, social media and political news coverage are huge distractions and productivity killers. Our respondents most frequently cited social media such as Facebook and Twitter (43%) followed by political news coverage (34%). News coverage…
Dear “I don’t have the time” people:
Dear “I don’t have the time” people: You actually have plenty of time. You just choose to use it differently. Saying “I don’t have the time to do something” is inaccurate at best, and at worst, a sign of weakness. Everyone has the same amount of time. How we choose to use it determines what we…
Time management doesn’t have to be complicated!
Time management doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, the more complicated we make our systems for managing and tracking time, the less we’ll be likely to stick with it. To help us get a grip on basic fundamentals of time management, we asked some questions of Clare Evans, Time Management and Productivity Coach and…
11 Beliefs Ultra-Productive Entrepreneurs Share About Time Management And Business
I have seen it first hand, working at large corporations. Truly outstanding entrepreneurs have their own philosophy about productivity. And it's a winning point of view. In this article by entrepreneur.com writer Ryan Walsh, he goes on to describe those winning ways the big executives often have. To highlight just a few; visionaries see undiscovered…
5 Tips for Happy Holiday Time Management
Thanksgiving is Thursday in the U.S., followed by the official “kickoff” to the holiday shopping season – Black Friday! Yes, things are about to get crazy(er). Let’s take a quick look at some ways to save our sanity by managing our time this holiday season. 1. Checklist your priority items. You can begin each…
5 Time-Management Secrets from Successful Women
Is work life/personal life balance just a pipe dream? Or is it reserved just for the super “bionically” organized select few? Maybe not. In Laura Vanderkam’s latest book I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, she details how most anyone can learn a few time saving tips….