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Stop Wasting Time!

January 26, 2016 by Cathy Stucker

wasted-timeDo you want to make more effective use of each day? One of the most important time management skills to learn is how to identify your daily time wasters and deal with them effectively. Take a look at the following list of common time-wasters and see if you recognize yourself in any of them.

Online Distractions

The great thing about the Internet is that you can find anything you want online. The bad thing about the Internet is that you can find anything you want online and all of it can keep you from what you should be doing. Email, Facebook, YouTube, and online forums are the worst. Have you ever popped into Facebook “for a few minutes” and not come up for air until two hours later? Yeah, we all have. But it is not something you can afford to do often.

So how do you cut out the distractions? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Productivity and Time Management Tagged With: Getting Things Done, time

How Do You Make Time To…?

September 29, 2015 by Cathy Stucker

A question I get a lot is, “How do you make the time to…?” You can end that sentence just about any way you can imagine: How do you make the time to write a book, blog, market, do social media, etc. Most people have lots of things they say they want to make time to do.

You may remember that several years ago Jay Leno did an ad for Doritos where he said, “Eat all you want, we’ll make more.” Well, you can make more Doritos, but you can’t make more time. The reality is that everybody gets 24 hours in the day. Nobody gets 17, nobody gets 28. Everybody gets 24 hours. You can’t make more time. You need to decide how to allocate those hours that you have, and I’m going to give you some ideas to help you with that.
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Filed Under: Productivity and Time Management Tagged With: get things done, Productivity, time

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