2008-01-02

time is not money

Yo. Make yourself an investment. Take a half an hour and read all of the links I'm listing below. Then take another ten minutes and write down the ten best items and put them next to the door of your room so you see them in the morning each day. Hey, just a suggestion - could maybe save you time.

A little unimaginative, but full of solid principles. A list of 61 items, separated into categories: ("on the job", "working with colleagues", "at home"):
http://www.projectmanagementsource.com/2007/02/time_management.html


Rather than a list of principles requiring contemplation and customization, the items on this list are small tweaks and edits to your behavior you may simply not have considered. These you could quickly implement. Separated into categories ("at home", "family", and "work"):
http://us.deskdemon.com/pages/us/worksmart/time-portal/save-an-hour-a-day


What to do with small pieces of free time. This is a list of 20 ideas for short tasks with relatively high payoff. Some pay you back with time savings, while others produce different forms of value.


Bonus Reading - reading beyond here will only serve your intellect, not necessarily your time management repetoire.


Wikipediate article about a book published in 1899 that covers the roots of our society's paradigm of labor and leisure. It provides some interesting perspective, by rehashing some of the ideas from the book itself, on the way people including you think of themselves. The book described, The Theory of the Leisure Class, is apparently "considered one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed critique of consumerism".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class


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