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Be More Effective. Achieve More. Bring focus to the way you work. © iStockphoto This section of Mind Tools teaches you time management skills. The 40+ skills taught here help you become highly effective, by showing you how to identify and focus on the activities that give you the greatest returns. Start with our short time management quiz, which helps you target the techniques that will help you most, and then explore the other articles. The Browse by Category box below will help you find specific skills, and you can skim through the list below to find useful topics. General Time Management Tools Leverage Achieving Much More With the Same Effort Prioritization Scheduling Time Management Challenges Concentration and Focus In Flow Maximizing Productivity Through Improved Focus Goal Setting Self-Motivation Join the Mind Tools Club The Mind Tools Club gives you many more resources than you get here on the basic Mind Tools site, including 4 free workbooks.
Find out more. Desperate for White Space? « LOL. I (Dawn) saw a woman at the mall with the following T-shirt: “Of course, I don’t look busy … I did it right the first time!”
I heard about a woman who returned from too many business appointments. Her young daughter greeted her with, “Hi, Aunt Mom.” Umm… too busy! But I think I’ve got the busy bug, too. I was talking on the phone the other day, and in the middle of the conversation, I forgot who the person on the other end of the line was ~ or why she called me in the first place! Do you ever feel like you are scrambling in the fast lane? When I was in fifth grade, I wrote an essay on a test, and had so much to say that I wrote tightly, from one edge of the paper to another.
I remember reading an article several years ago about Dr. Pam and I have a friend, Danna Demetre, who referred to Swenson’s book in her own book as she wrote about the importance of balanced living. “In my opinion,” Danna said, “true life balance is equilibrium of body, soul, and spirit. Like this: Like Loading...
Simple Truths — The Blog of Inspiration. 30 Days to Success. A powerful personal growth tool is the 30-day trial.
This is a concept I borrowed from the shareware industry, where you can download a trial version of a piece of software and try it out risk-free for 30 days before you’re required to buy the full version. It’s also a great way to develop new habits, and best of all, it’s brain-dead simple. Let’s say you want to start a new habit like an exercise program or quit a bad habit like sucking on cancer sticks. We all know that getting started and sticking with the new habit for a few weeks is the hard part. Once you’ve overcome inertia, it’s much easier to keep going. Yet we often psyche ourselves out of getting started by mentally thinking about the change as something permanent — before we’ve even begun.
But what if you thought about making the change only temporarily — say for 30 days — and then you’re free to go back to your old habits? Could you do it? Now if you actually complete a 30-day trial, what’s going to happen? Give up TV. Self Improvement from SelfGrowth.com.