How To Set Up Your DIY Planner
One of the advantages of making a DIY planner is that you can customize exactly what goes into it. Anything you need, in...anything you don't, out. Today we will look at some useful sections to help you set up your DIY Planner.
Bind It Up: DIY Planner Binding Options
Once you decide to make your own planning system, the binding becomes the first matter of choice. It dictates the size of your pages, as well as any special equipment you might need. Today we will look at the various binding options and how they work with different DIY options.
Limit What You See To Avoid Distraction
I read a tweet today where someone said they went to read a text, and an hour later realized they were on Twitter. I thought to myself, what we need is a set of horse blinkers. Horse blinkers were a device used to keep horses from seeing things in their peripheral vision that could spook them. It forces the horse to look straight ahead, and not get distracted. There are a lot of times I wish I had a device like that...but I realized that there are a lot of electronic horse blinkers out there we can use. And by using them, you can limit what you see to avoid distraction.
Reducing Inputs: Piles
In this series of articles, we have looked at reducing inputs into your life with the hopes of making it easier to manage. In this article, I wanted to look at the areas that we hadn't covered already (paper, phone, email)...and realized that it all boiled down to Piles. Today we will look at how to handle this other material and get it to the point where it is not clogging our attention.
Reducing Inputs: Phones
In this day, most of us have two or three phones. Each of these phones have voice mail, and usually one of those phones is carried at all times. The amount of information coming from these phones can be overwhelming. Let's look at reducing the phone inputs.
Reducing Inputs: Paper
We've been looking at ways to reduce the amount of stuff coming at us in order to make it more manageable. Last week we looked at email accounts and email. This week we will examine how to reduce the amount of paper in our lives.
5 Time Estimating Tips
One of the fundamental aspects of time management is being able to accurately estimate how long a task or series of tasks will take. A large chunk of my success in my job as a computer consultant comes from being very good at estimating tasks. Today I thought I would share 5 time estimating tips with you.
Do You Abuse Your Email?
Here's a trick question: what is email for? Email is for sending and receiving email. I am stating the obvious, but I want you to ask yourself: do you abuse your email by doing other things? Today we will look at the types of email abuse, and how to remedy them.
