For any project that we undertake in life, be it a long term or short term, personal or professional venture, setting an outline to achieve our goals is a great idea. Time management makes it that much simpler to work towards your goals. When you have a plan outline, it also saves you when things go wrong. For example, if you are unable to work one or two days due to issues beyond your control, you time management plan can quickly tell you where you need to put in and how much time you...

Time management is one of the skills that most people could improve on, though it is actually quite a simple task once a person knows certain techniques that can help them use this precious possession, wisely. In spite of what we often profess, we cannot actually "save" time; time progresses continually, the only difference one can make is in either using it or wasting it.

Wasted time is gone forever and it important that we come to terms with our mortality and...

"My house looks like a tornado hit it!"

"I can't find the credit card statement and it's late!"

"How will I pay for this?"

"I can't keep up with all these commitements!"

Have any of these questions ever crossed your mind? Then maybe it's time to simplfy your life! The first week in August is "Simplify Your Life Week". What a great time to start taking steps to simplify...

Making decisions quickly can be tough.  For instance, when you see two alternatives that are appealing, it can be tough to choose only one of them.  Or you may have a fear from making the wrong decision, so it takes you a long time to settle on a decision.

An easy way to solve this problem is to put a time limit or deadline on your decisions.  This can be used for the simplest of decisions, such as what to eat for dinner, to more complex decisions, such as what...

We all have goals. Great success begins with your habits. What habits do you have? Are your habits moving you towards your goals or keeping you away from them?
Being successful in your habits while aligning them with your goals, can allow achievement of what you dream of -- like never before.

Habits develop by doing an action enough times that the neurons in the brain create a pathway, enabling them to move more quickly from a trigger point. Some, for example, get in the...

Leading a group of people can often be a tiresome, thankless job and yet, many find the experience to be completely rewarding. Satisfaction is directly related to how well-functioning the group is. How to get a group of people to work together is both an art and a science. Volumes have been filled on numerous theories on how to make group more effective but mostly from a business context.

Outside of work life, groups form an important part of most everyone’s life....

Eat that Frog shows people how to focus on the tasks which are most important and how to organize their days better. The best selling book, which has already sold over 500, 000 copies and has been translated into 20+ languages, enables people to learn twenty-one solid methods to halt procrastinating and to get more things accomplished in less time. Tracy urges readers to accomplish their biggest and most unpleasant task first, or in other words eat their frog in the morning, with...

Tips for Time Management:  Delegation of Tasks

We could all use some good tips for time management.  In today’s fast-paced, high tech world, expectations are high for people to get lots of work done in a short period of time.  By utilizing a few handy tips and techniques you will quickly find yourself making the most efficient use of your precious.

Getting SMART to Better Time Management

Effective time management is essential when it comes to...

Alert and Prepared

Knowing how to stay focused is necessary both for offense and defense. The enemy of distraction can't invade the camp that is well lit with concentration. The list of tasks on the schedule become like stepping stones to an alert, action oriented mindset.

10 Tips To Stay On Top

1. Coffee: I'm not condoning an IV drip or a pot within arms distance, but if you enjoy coffee or...

<p><i> Mornings. Most of us don't like 'em, but they're a fact of life. So how do you make the morning game of 'beat the clock' more bearable? Try these tips.</i></p>

<p>A few weeks ago as  I was looking for missing shoes, trying to convince my daughter that  she would not die if she had to eat a piece of toast instead of  pancakes, looking for my keys (which were in my hand the whole time)  and generally rushing around trying...