Results in No Time is a "one-stop time management shop," providing leading-edge consulting and seminars that help with all time management problems and tasks.
Time management addresses various tasks, habits, and time-wasting perceptions and feelings. The most common tasks, habits, and feelings to deal with are listed below. See whether you can identify your task, habit, or feeling in the list. Then click on it to go to readings and techniques for dealing with it. In many cases it may take extensive, disciplined practice of these techniques. If you have difficulty identifying the issue and would like some help, send an email to Steve Randall.
- anxiety
- deadline pressure
- determining goals and priorities
- emotions that waste time
- feeling of time passing
- handling projects
- indecision/confusion/uncertainty/doubt
- measuring progress
- overwhelm/helplessness
- planning
- procrastination
- producing more in less time
- scatteredness/distractedness/lack of concentration
- scheduling
- time poverty (the feeling that you don't have enough time)
- tiredness
For a free, introductory seminar that presents ideas
and methods necessary for mastering time, including what
time is and how our experience of time is created and influenced,
check out Mastering
Tiime 101.
The essential conventional time mangement skills are to
identify long-term goals, break down projects, prioritize tasks,
estimate how long it will take to do things, and organize and
schedule tasks. Check out the free conventional time mangement seminar, Mastering
Time 103.
Here's a short list of what's necessary to master conventional
time management:
- Clarify and write down your long- and short-term objectives in major areas of life. Keep the objectives current.
- Break projects down into doable tasks. Update project plans as necessary.
- For all identified tasks, set priorities and estimate the time required so that you're aware of what's important and when things are scheduled.
- Schedule periodically and create to-do lists and calendars with scheduled tasks and appointments.
- Do the tasks, focusing on top priorities, and doing things in the time allocated (except for unexpected changes).
- Periodically ask Lakein's question: "What is the best
use of my time right now?" Change tasks as appropriate.
Besides conventional time management (CTM) , which
handles what objectives and tasks we do, there's inner
time management (ITM), which optimizes how we do things.
For starters, see Mastering
Tiime 101. Also see Principles
of Psychological Time Management for a summary of ITM.
Here's a short list of what's necessary to master inner time
management:
- Learn the differences between clock time and felt time.
- Learn about the 'felt time' in your native culture, including its effects on your health and productivity, and how these effects relate to peak experiences.
- Learn how our various experiences of felt time get created and intensified.
- Learn methods useful to transform your native 'felt time' to the level of timelessness desired. (Six levels can be identified.)
- Periodically, whatever you're doing, ask Randall's question:
"Am I timelessly involved in what's at hand?" Increase
absorption in activities any way you can.
In general, the way to simultaneously optimize health and well-being, productivity, and quality of products and processes is to continually get more involved in whatever is at hand, whether work or play. See What Guarantees Optimal Productivity and Well-Being?
Note: If you have questions or comments about these exercises or readings, please send email to or call Steve Randall at 510-690-0490.
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