To help you to learn how to prioritise your time, effort and energy, I’d like to introduce you to Vilfredo Pareto. Pareto was an Italian industrialist, sociologist, economist and philosopher who conducted land surveys for local councils in Italy in the later part of the 1880s.

While surveying land for taxation purposes, he discovered that roughly about 80 percent of the land in any region he visited was owned by about 20 percent of the town or village population. Regardless...

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...

Being a working woman today is tough. The daily grind never stops, and most of the time, life balance is not even an option. What, are you kidding?

And what’s more, you are expected to have some semblance of a family and personal life in the limited glimpses of time between work days.

Can it be done? It depends on whether you are ready and willing to make some changes in your life. Successful change can only happen if you are ready and willing – and that goes...

Have you ever wondered why some people are so much more productive than others? They might have the same level of education, same jobs, and same lifestyle, but one person is getting a lot more done, and is a lot less stressed. So what is the productive person's secret?

The secret is that the productive person figured out what hours are the most productive for him or her, while their friends have not found it. It took me years to figure this out. I used to think that I was a...

Meetings could be considered a necessary evil of the everyday work life. A poorly organized meeting will not only be a huge time waster, but can also ruin your credibility with your coworkers. It is vitally important that you learn the basics of conducting a short and well-organized meeting.

The single most important thing for you to do before a meeting is to develop an agenda. A meeting without an agenda is pure and utter chaos. Nothing will ever get resolved and the meeting...

We all only have so many hours in the day to do everything we want to do. Have you ever said, “Where did the day go, I didn’t get anything done”? Here are 8 tips on how to get more done in a day and maybe you can push that snooze button one more time.

1. When you can, multi-task to save time. For instance, put in a batch of wash while you cook breakfast or read to a child. Have a cake baking in the oven while you write a letter. When multi-tasking do things that...

Are you stressed about time? Do you never seem to have enough time for the things you need to get done? Read on to discover why you may be struggling with getting control of your time -- and some time management exercises that help you do something about it.

You have heard about the 80/20 principle, right? It seems to be the secret to managing time more effectively. Simply do more of the 20 percent of the things that bring the best results, and dump the rest. There's a big...

What Does Life Training Teach us About Time?

Gary Eby

A proverbial saying... “Time flies. But it's up to you to be the navigator."  This is quite evident when you’re having fun doing what you love to do. But through effective life training by a capable life skills coach you would be able to achieve much more.

This complex issue regarding time prompts some folks to save it, others make it, most waste it, several kill it, and a few actually are on...

While you're working, you might have a lot of programs running on your computer at the same time.  Your Windows taskbar might be filled up from left to right.  But the problem is that your working area on your monitor becomes cluttered.  It takes longer to find the program you need because you'll have to look through dozens of running programs.

That can slow down your productivity.

When you're working, try to minimize the number of programs running...

SPEND TIME, ADD VALUE

Time Management, Event Control – The Value Paradigm

By

VIKRAM KARVE

Time is a series or succession of events.

Controlling life means controlling time.

Controlling time means controlling events.

Thus "Time Management" is "Event Control".

Time Management is inextricably linked with event control and boils down to selecting, planning and managing your events or...