Personal Improvement

The PDCA cycle is a valuable process that can be applied to practically anything. In this session, we discuss case related medical student performance, but the PDCA cycle can be used in everything from making a meal to walking your dog. An immediate concern of yours may be improving your study skills.

Example 1:  The Student with Poor Grades

Lakshmi is a first-year medical student who has just taken her first set of examinations and is very...

Many men and women including teens, both share the same problem, they are under the threat of procrastination. This to them is a very serious problem.

It is characterized by delaying big sized project works until the last possible second therefore not completing the task or just rushing through it to get it done

It can affect everything from one's result at work, to a kid's grades in university.

In fact, ways to end procrastination, there are many, which...

Are you one of those people who want to just read read read and think you have to learn everything about the business before you get out there and get your business going? Not True! I did that and found I wasted so much time and time is really valuable.

If you work your business from the heart, be honest and feel comfortable about how you are marketng yourself and your product, you will be a success! You really don't need to know everything, you will learn it as you go.

You...

There are more strategies available for better time management than there are seconds in a month, and new methods are being introduced daily. While the effectiveness of any single "system" may be difficult to discern, it is clear that there are some behaviors one should avoid when trying to maximize his or her efficiency. We may not always know the best way to handle time, but we certainly know a few things to avoid. Let's look at two common time management errors to...

We all know how speed reading can enrich our lives both qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitatively, because by speed reading we will be able train our mind to process its thoughts faster, and that will make us more intelligent over time. Quantitatively, because speed reading enables us to save time and use it for living our lives to the fullest. When we speed read, we are digesting the thoughts of the writer in a shorter span of time, and that gives us more time to analyze those...

You can make your day by knowing how to avoid non-urgent socializing; not knowing can turn your busy day upside down. You lose, and so do those having a stake in your timely performance.

Fortunately, most people want to have strong, positive relationships with those they interact with daily. There are non-offensive ways to deal with visitors and callers that preserve, even strengthen, the relationships with them.

You can avoid socializing that wastes critical time...

Eating on the run. Cellphoning while driving. Email avalanches. Distracted living. We prize knowledge work, yet have little time to think. We can contact millions of people worldwide, but have trouble sitting down to chat or eat with those we love. In this wondrous, high-tech, hyper-mobile age, something crucial is missing: attention -- the key to recapturing our ability to connect, reflect, and relax; the secret to coping with an overloaded, boundary-less world. What's needed now is a...

Do you happen to study in college or high school? Do you feel stressed out? Do you feel tired and run down? Is your life running out of your control? Do you feel too much pressure and have a lot of priorities?
Student days are probably the busiest days in one's life. Assignments, recitations, exams and projects al combine to make college life a whirlwind of exhaustion. Add to this the fact that most students rarely have any time left for their family.
Their management of time...

I'm currently reading Dan Kennedy's time management book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs.

He talks about Time Blocks in one of the chapters. Time blocking is basically scheduling your day to day activities in blocks of time.

The philosophy being, the more time you have scheduled the more you will get done, because you would have less idle time.

It's sort of like keeping appointments with yourself, he says. Most people keep appointments with...

One of the keys to successful time management is prioritizing tasks and distinguishing optional activities from the essential. Those judgment calls are an integral part of virtually every time management system. Whether you are writing different "to-do's" in different colors of ink or are giving each list item a priority ranking, your decisions about the importance of activities will have a huge impact on how you spend your day.

Most of those who run their own business...