Posts Tagged ‘efficiency’

Noticing Time Thieves

Posted on January 24th, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Lurking all around you at home, at work, and everywhere in between, there are tasks, situations, technology, humans (and other mammals) who can potentially steal your time. Be on the lookout for the following time thieves:

Email
Telephone
Drop-in visitors
Procrastination
Self-distraction
Filing systems that aren’t
Energy suckers (which might include gossip or other negative and non-productive interactions)
Slow or inefficient reading
Junk mail
Re-thinking, [...]

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Batch Tasks to Boost Efficiency (Ali Brown Article)

Posted on September 16th, 2009, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Here’s a link to Ali’s excellent tips about being more productive and efficient by ‘batching’ tasks.  I concur completely!
http://www.alibrown.com/content/batch-tasks-boost-efficiency
We can all do this!

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