Noticing Time Thieves

Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D. — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:56:53 +0000

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, i.e., churning through the same idea over and over and over.
Social media (I sure love it, but…whew…my time can sure get ‘taken’ (or really, I’m just giving it away!)

There are others that you might notice, too. The idea is just to become aware of what might be stealing your time and energy.

Also, consider this teleseminar (which is available as an MP3 along with extensive handouts) to help with time thieves: http://meggin.com/ATPAvailabletoPromise.php

Batch Tasks to Boost Efficiency (Ali Brown Article)

Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D. — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:00:24 +0000

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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Noticing Time Thieves

Batch Tasks to Boost Efficiency (Ali Brown Article)