We correspond frequently, but we’re often rushed, preoccupied, and unable to give our full attention. If you feel overwhelmed and distracted in today’s world, take comfort.
We’ve heard time and again that attitude is everything.
In a world that’s becoming less black-and-white every day, one seemingly littered with contradictions, can it be true that there’s one simple answer to the question of how to improve our lives?
I think not! There’s more to life than attitude.
If you’ve tried recently, or even not so recently, to “get organized” and “manage your time,” you’ve probably noticed that it just isn’t that easy. You feel like you’re getting more done, and done faster, but you’re not feeling any better. You’re just working harder and faster, without seeing any real change in your life, at least not any positive change.
I suggest that what you need is not just to come up with a way to organize your life and time, but a way to slow down.
What? Isn’t this all about getting more done, and getting it done faster?
The Pareto Principle, or 80/20 rule, or the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity, states that 80% of the effects (results) come from 20% of the causes (effort).
Let’s throw out the Pareto Principle formula and focus our time on doing what’s truly important.
Emphasize focus and results in time management. This is an approach I can really identify with. It’s not about how much you get done in a particular block of time. It’s about getting the results you need from that time.
“Banish the Sunday Night Blues!” Listen in, call in, and enjoy a lively discussion about slowing down to enjoy life.
You can do that this Sunday, December 23rd, at 10:00 PM Eastern. I’ll be a guest of Kristen Hallows on her Blog Talk Radio show Job You Desire.
There was a promise that in the near future there would be a “paperless” office; a post about this promise at Small Business Trends website.
Entrepreneur.com posted an article titled Work/Life Balance Heads to the Polls. In this article it states that 60% of people polled think that the next
“One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker.”
Where we once felt purposeful, focused, and fueled with passion… these days, we’re apt to be idealistic but scattered, connected but alone. Our lives are brimming over, and yet we’re empty inside.
David Bohl and Karen Ellenbecker team up to help Americans take a more active role in their finances and investment futures. In the past ten
Although I often wonder why I need mail in today’s day and age, I’m not opting out of mail anytime soon. I am, however, taking the time to reconsider the amount and types of digital and print media that I consume. I’m controlling my subscriptions.
Amazon has made the new Kindle eBook reader. Various reviews and opinions mostly mixed. You either love it or you hate it.
Time management, as a field, generally bugs me. I think most of the time there is too much focus on “efficiency” and “getting things done.” My problem is not usually in getting a certain number of things done. I can get fifty things done in one day if I try hard enough. However, there may be much more important things I really needed to get done.
When my kids went off to college, I was worried, as all parents are, if they were ready to embrace today’s world and not by consumed by it. I found comfort in the fact that their schools were providing them with email accounts and that I had provided them with cell phones with endless minutes. “How did my parents ever get along while I was away at school without instant access to me?” I wondered, but was quite grateful for the technological conveniences that today’s world offered to them (and to me!).
It took me a while to learn the ‘rules’ of communicating with young people who were stretching their wings of newfound independence.
Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity (a humorous piece from The Onion – careful – it contains a bad word).
I’m very big on rules. I don’t always obey the speed limit, and sometimes I ignore the sign that says “please return carts here,” and put them by a curb instead. But other than that, I’m pretty much a rule follower – I conform not only when I have to, but because it’s often the ‘right thing’ to do.
