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Much of your stress starts with either lack of a plan or a bad plan.
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Category Archives: Time Management
Mar
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Pimp My Schedule: Limit Your To-Do List
Have you ever noticed that those days when you don’t have a schedule packed full of must-to items tend to be the days when you actually get more done? Looking at a calendar with some white space on it somehow communicates to your mind that you have time to accomplish things, while the converse is true as well.
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Mar
16
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Productivity Tip: Percolate
When it comes to creative work, there are two big, foreboding obstacles that keep us from producing:
1: we go BLANK from lack of inspiration
or
2: we go DIZZY from distractions
The first problem – that virtual blankness that overcomes your brain when you face an empty screen, empty piece of paper, unformed
Mar
14
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Pimp My Schedule: Weekly Planning Session
So this may sound a little hacked, after admonishing you not to take your schedule too seriously…
But you do actually need time to plan things.
Do you have a regular time to sit down, look at the week ahead, look at your goals, your to-do list, and your reality, and figure
Pimp My Schedule: My Preciousssss
Do you have a planner broken up in 15-minute increments?
How about a color-coding system and a set of 35 Sharpies to keep it all colored correctly?
Do you spend more than 30 minutes per week planning your schedule and getting it in your planner?
Did you spend more than $20 on your planning system?
Do you agonize over little time management decisions, like whether to have
Feb
28
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Pimp My Schedule: Motivation First
For several years now, I’ve had a sporadic habit (which, I guess, makes it not really a habit) of getting up early to get some writing in before the kids wake up. I’m naturally a morning person, and I read all these biographies and interviews about famous and productive people who used this extreme early morning method to get the important stuff accomplished before the distractions of the day set
