Archive for Time Management

Build downtime into your schedule.

I am a schedule geek. During the week I have my schedule planned out so that I balance my most productive times. When I plan my week I am sure to add lunches, family and friend activities. These times are as important to me as client projects, scheduled calls and workshops to attend. I have [...]

Time Lost = 8 Minutes

Image by wwarby via Flickr Recently I spoke at an event and had the pleasure of being preceded by Susan Lieber of Leave it to Lieber.  Susan is a guru organization specialist and all around interesting entrepreneur.  During her presentation Susan discussed organization for your business and that multi-tasking does not work in regards to [...]

January is National Get Organized Month

How appropriate that the first month of the year focuses on getting yourself organized?  And why am I writing about it at the end of the month?  I am writing about it now, because at the beginning of January we are all worried about setting goals, resolutions and regrouping after the holidays.  Now that each [...]

Surviving the holiday with 3 things we tend to forget.

I am writing this article, the week of Thanksgiving.  There is enough to do with the short work week and now I am doing what I tell my clients not to do – procrastinate.  I try to write regularly but as of late I have no ideas – blank, nada, nothing.  Hence the procrastination of [...]

Should you multi-task?

This topic was brought up by one of my FaceBook friends.  How do you know when to multi task versus when to concentrate on one client?  Here are my processes for client work and multi-tasking. I am a stickler for organization so each client and their tasks get a chunk of scheduled time throughout the [...]