PRODUCTIVITY AND TIME MANAGEMENT

OTHER SECTIONS TO COORDINATE WITH THIS:

Click the following title to go to: The Operating Notebook - For managing daily, weekly, quarterly in an organized manner. This is designed to supplement other systems by having easy reference pages and sections for your daily operating needs. In the Table of Contents are sections and subsections designed so you'll have a place for everything. While some of the same forms could be in other notebooks, they would be brought into this one whenever they are useful for more current referenceability.

See also LifePlan and the LifeBook Notebooks in Site Map III.

RESOURCES TO USE.

Read the top 2- 4 Recommended Books. Learn to Eat That Frog and your productivity will shoot up. Learn 80-20 and your life will be easier and more productive. Live a life of First Things First and you'll always have time.

Use the Recommended Services and Websites. For further guidance and insight.

TIME MANAGEMENT, PER SE

See the Current Year and Long Term Planning Notebooks in Site Map III.

OVERALL ON TIME MANAGEMENT

ACTIVITIES - ARE YOU CHOOSING THEM OR ARE THEY CHOOSING (future piece)

HOW TO HAVE THE TIME TO FIT IT ALL IN (future piece)

What To Do Next After The Time Management Class - And why (the benefits). This is a

piece written to some young people about what is essential

CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE:

INTRODUCTORY:

PERSPECTIVE ON TIME MANAGEMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY - See what it can do for you and figure out how great the returns can be.

A "QUIK-PATH" TO LEARNING AND SETTING YOU UP. For your sake, at least do this

quicker path to getting set up. We have some "higher level" things after this, but this

path will set you up so your productivity goes way up.

REFERENCE:

RESOURCES TO USE - Preselected and screened for you, so utilize these (here you're using a time saving principle to save mistakes and to save the time of your doing it yourself.

SYSTEMS FOR TIME MANAGEMENT - Check these out to see which you prefer. They all

work.

COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS - Recommended if you have more than a few things to do...

THE TIMER TOOL - Fit in 1, 2, 5, 10 minutes even when you feel compelled to do

something you're anxious about. Things fit in seamlessly and you feel much, much

better!

TIME MANAGEMENT, PER SE - See also Planning Forms. ("Time management" usually refers to more of the mechanics of managing time.)

Overall on time management

Individual pieces on time management

Time Savers

ORGANIZATION - Save lots of time! Follow these practices and life will be alot easier!

PRODUCTIVITY - Using these principles will create a whole new life, one that is easier, more productive, and more enjoyable. Not knowing these will cost you, big time!

EFFECTIVE PLANNING - Less planning --> less results; less effectiveness --> poor results

OTHER SECTIONS TO COORDINATE WITH THIS

LIFE IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEND YOUR TIME AND ENERGY IN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAXIMIZE ACCUMULATED VALUE (= HAPPINESS).

THE MAXIMIZATION PROCESS IS CALLED "PRODUCTIVITY" = THE GREATEST RETURN OF VALUE FOR THE TIME AND ENERGY. IT IS VITAL TO LIVING A GREAT LIFE!

PERSPECTIVE ON TIME MANAGEMENT

Time management is a subpart of productivity management. However, it is often associated with the mechanics of how to do the details, while productivity is associated with the "principles" application part.

Essentially, you can choose to increase your efficiency (get more done in less time) and/or your effectiveness (do something that has a greater amount of impact). Since you can only become efficient up to a certain degree, the larger effect comes from increasing your effectiveness not your efficiency. Indeed, some relatively inefficient people have been marvelously effective in life.

In learning this, or any other area, you must be sure to:

1) Do it systematically rather than randomly (most people live life randomly).

2) Use experts, the higher the better (most people learn from amateurs

3) Do it to "completion" (finish off the knowledge so that you know enough to be productive)

A) Use immersion (all at once in a concentrated time) where possible

A QUIKPATH: The person who wants to maximize his time management and productivity would follow a path like this: (If you are interested in improving but not yet ready to maximize, you would review and scan and only go into certain areas in more depth, but would still read the top 1 or 2 books.)

- Learn the 80-20 principle 1st, as it multiplies the results per amount of time

significantly.

Read The 80/20 Principle, The Principle To Run Your Life On.

Explains the principle.

Helpful: Review/scan the key parts of the sister website:

Live8020.com.

- Get a time system that works for you. Confusion and big wastes of time

occur otherwise.

Take the all day class or buy the CD setup from Franklin Covey. See Resources.

- Read the three key books recommended in

Time and Productivity Resources.

What's next?

At this point, having done the above, you'll be relatively proficient.

- All highly productive people set up specific written plans. See Planning

section.

- If one is trying to succeed at anything, one should read the Success section.

- Advanced, further levels:

Advanced thinking results from exposure to the materials at

Strategic Coach.

For the very advanced: Mission Control, to get your complete act

together and functioning at the very top level!