When you toss a coin, the chances of it coming up 'heads' are fifty-fifty, yet tests show that people call 'heads' almost 80 percent of the time.
How much is email costing your business? It is a wonderful and incredibly powerful tool, but in high volumes it can be stressful and debilitating.
Review progress – or lack of it – over the last six months. Come on – be honest! I bet you haven’t achieved half the things you intended to and I also bet you feel that it’s not your fault but that of others in your company.
Tame your e-mail beast by mastering the art of e-mail management.
Interruptions are among the most insidious enemies of workplace productivity.
Time management training is awful. Focus on the wider time management issues to help you take control of your entire life, not just your work life.
You can take two important and easy steps that will ensure you are in control of your work time. Simply identify and then eliminate those things which rob you of time on a daily basis.
So you’re flat out like a lizard drinking... You haven’t got time to scratch yourself... Your family is screaming they haven’t seen you since Christmas dinner... You’re working 70 hours a week (and that’s on a quiet week.)
For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, the lead-up to a holiday can be a period of heightened pressure and stress.
Before you automatically call another meeting - stop! Ask yourself if a decision could be reached or information be relayed just as well via a phone call, email, memo or fax. Or even face-to-face with a quick round robin of associates in their offices? Read on for some valuable tips.
Time is an absolute constant - but what you choose to do with it is an absolute variable. You can’t really manage, convert or change time. But contrary to what is most often felt, you can be master of it.
Taking Stock: Are you on your way to achieving the goals you set for yourself in six months ago? Have you made a start? Or are you still thinking about it or caught the very popular “I’m too busy” epidemic?
Creating time is altogether different to saving time or managing time. When we focus on time management we usually lose whatever we gain by completing another project or fulfilling another obligation. It’s the original merry-go-round.
Time is the one thing that is distributed equitably to everyone. We all have 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in each hour. Depending on choices we make regarding lifestyles etc, the way in which we spend our time can and does vary greatly.
If you are a regular business traveller then the following excerpt from my brand new book “Get Organised – Get a Life” will help you.
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