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(Photo credit: Advertise2win® ) Monday Quotes On Seizing The Day Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~ Charles Richards I'm less interested in why we're here. I'm wholly devoted to while we're here. ~ Erika Harris, empathicwriter.com You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. ~ Charles Buxton He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. ~ Sydney Smith I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument, while the song I came to sing remains unsung. ~ Tagore Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Voiceless" I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I hel

Dartmouth College Clock Tower (Photo credit: BFS Man ) Today we have some great time management tips from the Academic Skills Centre of Dartmouth College Time Management Tips 1 .Count all your time as time to be used and make every attempt to get satisfaction out of every moment. 2.Find something to enjoy in whatever you do. 3.Try to be an optimist and seek out the good in your life. 4.Find ways to build on your successes. 5.Stop regretting your failures and start learning from your mistakes. 6.Remind yourself, "There is always enough time for the important things." If it is important, you should be able to make    time to do it. 7.Continually look at ways of freeing up your time. 8.Examine your old habits and search for ways to change or eliminate them. 9.Try to use waiting time­­-review notes or do practice problems. 10.Keep paper or a calendar with you to jot down the things you have to do or notes to yourself. 11.Examine and revise your lif

Time Management – Is It Working For You? My five earlier posts about Time Management; The Clock Is Ticking! How Good Are You At Time Management Time Management: Know Where Time Goes - Keep A Log Pinpointing Those Emotional Blocks to Change Time Management – Becoming Better Organized Find Your Prime Time said that the first five steps in managing time are;  To be clear about your purpose and your direction in life, To know how you spend your time To include an emotional element in your time management program. To become better organized. To find out when you work best. Now you need to make sure your new time management regime is working for you. If it is, you should notice the following improvements Increased energy, productivity and motivation A greater sense of control You are more decisive and pro-active You no longer take work problems home You are acting more assertively - procrastination and perfectionism are be

Monday Quotes – Time Management Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed, nothing else will be managed. Peter F. Drucker You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace. Brian Tracy I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything.. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything Dan Millman Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, “what is the most valuable use of my time right now?"  Brian Tracy Choose the time of day or night when your energies are highest and conduct business at that time. The Mafia Manager One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. Chinese Proverb Time is a versatile perfor

Eastern Screetch-Owl  (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Time Management – Find Your Prime Time My four earlier posts about Time Management; The Clock Is Ticking! How Good Are You At Time Management Time Management: Know Where Time Goes - Keep A Log Pinpointing Those Emotional Blocks to Change Time Management – Becoming Better Organized said that the first four steps in managing time are;  To be clear about your purpose and your direction in life, To know how you spend your time To include an emotional element in your time management program. To become better organized Now you need to find out your best time to work! Some people are “owls” and work best in the late afternoon. Others are “larks” and love to wake up early and get on with their work.  One is not better than the other, they are just different. It is best to do your most demanding tasks when you are alert and at your best – work at your best internal prime time.

Managing emotions - Identifying feelings (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Time Management - Pinpointing Those Emotional Blocks to Change My last two posts about Time Management ( The Clock Is Ticking! How Good Are You At Time Management) and ( Time Management: Know Where Time Goes - Keep A Log ) said that the first two steps in managing time are to be clear about your purpose and your direction in life and then to know how you spend your time. Knowing those things and completing the first two steps are important. But often time management improvement plans still fail. This is usually because there are underlying emotional issues. Sometimes people feel guilty about spending time on their own interests. For example, what about the rest of the family – shouldn't this time be spent with the children? Or perhaps you might be anxious about saying no to a colleague and refusing to help them at the expense of time to do your own work. This might be because you lack the

The Android Emulator home screen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia )  Monday Quotes - Time Management Time = life; therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. Alan Lakein The key is in not spending time, but in investing it. Stephen R. Covey This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph Waldo Emerson If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got. Lee Iacocca You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. Doc Childre and Howard Martin One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. Chinese Proverb Never let yesterday use up today. Richard H. Nelson Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment. That is what’s real. Sara Paddison Until you value yourself, you will not va

Time Management: Know Where Time Goes - Keep A Log My last post about Time Management ( The Clock Is Ticking! How Good Are You At Time Management?) said that the first step in managing time is to be clear about your purpose and your direction in life.  Now you need to find out how you actually spend your time. The best way to do this is to start using a time log. Record each activity throughout your day with the time taken to complete it. Do this at the time, if you can.The closer to the time, the more accurate you log is going to be,  But at the very least, ensure you record each hour's activity at the end of each day. For example Date    Time           Activity             07.00             08.00             09.00  Etc The period covered should be the whole of your waking day. Everything should be included if you are serious about wanting to a achieve a better balanced and more manageable life.   Keeping a log for just a couple of da

Resolution - better time management (Photo credit: vpickering ) Time may be relative but it is also neutral.  The reality is that there is neither too much nor too little time unless we make it so.  So time management “at the end of the day” is about self-management. If you have a time management problem, the first step is to understand why.  This begins with looking at yourself. In reality, for most of us, 80% of our results come from 20% of our activities – the good old 80/20 Pareto Principle at work again. But first let us work out the extent of the problem. Below are 10 questions. They are all about the signs of poor time management.  So saying yes to even one question suggests you need to improve your time management skills. If you say yes to several questions, you could already be in danger of suffering from stress and even possible burn-out. Are you constantly rushing about from one meeting or appointment to another? Do you find yourself repeatedly ap