Because of thunder storms in Atlanta, the flight from Dallas to Atlanta had been delayed twice. On the third attempt, we were boarding and I felt hopeful of actually getting off the ground. My hopes faded fast when the tired-looking flight attendant came down the aisle quietly announcing that if we were not permitted to take off in the next 15 minutes, the crew would have exceeded their 16-hour work day and we would have to taxi back to the terminal and await another flight.

24 hours, 1,440 minutes, 86,400 seconds—no matter how you express it, we only have so much time each day into which we cram work or school, cooking, cleaning, family time and a myriad of miscellaneous obligations and commitments, all clamoring for our attention. In between these activities are unavoidable traffic jams, grocery lines and waiting rooms, etc., where we find ourselves stuck wasting time while we “hurry up and wait.” And so the concept of multitasking was...

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the '80:20 Rule' states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However,  80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although  the ratio '80:20' is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view...

There are 24 hours in a day, of which the average person spends eight hours at work and eight hours sleeping...

That makes 40 hours per week of free time that you can do with as you wish during the workweek plus an additional 32 hours of awake time on the weekend.

The average person actually spends twice as much time away from work than at it. So what should you do with all that free time? Over 72 hours a week in all!

First, you should realize that most...

To a businessman, the key to make business success is to have an effective business time management plan. The working days of most busy people are often in a mess. Busy people cannot seem to achieve much is due to the reason that they like to spend too much time staying frenzy.

Business people have to know that they do not just need good management techniques, but also they need systematic effective business time managment skills.

Many businessmen who run their own...

Ok, so you have kids at home and you have a full time job. How are you supposed to organise a party? Where are you going to find the time to source everything and ensure it all arrives on time?

In recent years shopping online has become much more popular. This is probably because of increased number of companies moving into the transactional online space and better, more secure websites available to conduct transactions. So, this is how you manage your hectic lifestyle and how to...

One Saturday morning at 8:30 a.m. I was looking out my kitchen window watching a fireman dressed who was dressed in his blue uniform carrying what looked like a heavy back pack on his back walking up the steep street in front of our home. I wondered where he was going and why he would be in uniform on a Saturday morning. It was already a hot 80 degrees heading up to 98 degrees in the afternoon.

About 4:00 p.m. in the afternoon that same fireman was at our front door.  He and...

<p><i>Think an online calendar can help simplify your life? You're right! But besides the usual uses for a calendar, online calendars provide many other options that you may not have thought of. </i></p>

<p>Who among us doesn't rely on a <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/article_exit_link');" href=" " target="_blank">calendar </a> to keep track of...

Have you ever wished you wouldstop wasting time procrastinatingabout a task and just do it?  We all do it sometime or other, but for some people it can be a big problem.

Did you know thatprocrastinationzaps precious time and emotional energy? We feel down, as if success has slipped through our fingers.  Now we have even more toprocrastinate about.

Whenprocrastinationoccurs, nothing gets done. And when nothing gets done due to procrastination, that's when we...

There are so many people, who complain that they do not get enough time for their social life just because they have so much office work to do. This happens only when you are unable to manage your time in an effective way. For this, it is very important that you do best time management, because this will help you in completing all your tasks quite well on time. Sometime it happens that you get so much hectic work to do and once you look at the actual work you feel lethargic, which...