My Time Management: Your Guide to a Balanced, Productive Life

Over the last 20 years, I have worked to improve employees' time management and productivity in many workplaces. It is very rare for people to come up to me and say, "Hey, I have got plenty of time and not much to do."

So many people feel stressed, under constant time pressure, and overwhelmed by their many commitments. As a result, people often work harder and longer, often at the expense of spending time with family and friends, often at the expense of their health and well-being.

Thomas Edison once said that

"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose"

Yet many people can improve the quality of their time and life by making small changes to their work habits. I often see people in workplaces who are 'stressed' to their eyeballs, and complaining they have 'too much to do and not enough time'.

In my experience, I have seen that this can impact people in a few different ways. First sleep is interrupted as they wake up in the middle of the night worrying about the things they haven't done. Second, they have this nagging feeling that they are spinning their wheels and losing sight of their long-term personal ambitions. Third, they are not getting enough downtime and are not spending enough time with their family and friends.

My motivation for writing this website is to provide actionable strategies to transform work habits so that you can be productive but achieve fulfilling balance.

If you look at the numbers, on average workers

spend 2-3 hours or more reading and responding to emails,
are interrupted all the time, which means that they can't get to their high-value tasks,
attend too many unproductive meetings,
spending too much of their day looking for that email or document that has that critical information,
multiple handling emails and tasks,
procrastinate on big-ticket items.

Given these statistics, it makes sense that actionable targeted strategies are focused in those areas.

My purpose is to provide strategies in these areas so that you can work smarter and make progress on the important things that matter to you, lead a life of value, and experience the satisfaction of achievement and pride in your accomplishments.

So, if you, like so many of us, feel you have inadvertently joined the new generation of techno-slaves, welcome! Or if you just want to get the very best out of your days, welcome!

Where should you start your time management journey?

If you know something has to change but are not sure what - then consider doing this time management quiz.

However, you probably have a sense of what your pain points are, so we have provided a list of tactics to choose from when wanting to improve your time management. These tactics offer clear, concrete strategies and techniques for improving time management and productivity.

Start where you feel the pain the most. Then, each strategy you apply below will strengthen your resolve to go further and build a habit of progress rather than perfection.

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