Entries Tagged 'Time Management' ↓

What Accomplished People Can Teach You About Work-Life Balance

Stumbled on the article at businessweek.com called Readers Voice Their Workplace Problems. It discusses workplace problems identifying work-life balance (WLB) as #1 issue. I am all for WLB and I am constantly looking for a ways to improve. Look what other accomplished people can teach you about practical approach for load at home and at work. work life balance
by cpt.spock
This is what they say:

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Program Yourself For Extremely Fast Performance


Some call it GTD, some call it Kaizen, some just call it discipline. Call it what ever you like. If you want to perform extremely fast you better adopt proven performance practices. You must program yourself the way the world fastest computers are. Program yourself to perform fast when

Steve Hansen - pile up by Katiya Rhode-Singh.
by Katiya Rhode-Singh

checking emails, reading news, attending meetings, selling to your customers, delivering services, blogging.

Why?

They say “time is money”. If you can save yourself time, you surely save yourself tons of money. Here is how I save.

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Multitasking Kills Your Productivity? You Must Master State Management.

Have you had this situation? You are focused on solving some sort of problem and then  – boom – telephone rings. You pick up the phone (big mistake!) and hear answer machine running some sort of marketing campaign…. Going nowhere fast by NathanFromDeVryEET.
by NathanFromDeVryEET 

The focus is lost. The solution you were THAT close is now THIS far and you need to start it over… ARGGHHHH!

Have you?

Interruptions are fact of life. You cannot avoid it completely. Then how do you get back to your work after the interruption? How do you protect your productivity from losing time and getting back on speed when switching back and forth?

In software engineering it is called Context Switching and State Management. The system with better State Management performs better (faster and more reliable).

Can I apply State Management to my personal performance? My answer is “Yes”. Here is my technique.

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