Article on Learn to Manage Your Time in Globe and Mail

Article in today's Globe and Mail in the Monday Morning Manager by Harvey Schachter on my time management book: Learn to Manage Your Time.

Self-Management: Building Your Day Based on Priorities

"At the end of today, make a list of everything you want to do tomorrow. Then, Quebec-based consultant Lucy MacDonald advises in her book Learn To Manage Your Time, choose the six most important tasks and number them 1 to 6. Tomorrow, start the day with the first item on the list and keep working on it until you have finished it or have taken it as far as you possibly can. Then move on to the second task, and approach it with similar discipline, not moving on to the third item until the second is completed. You'll obviously be called upon to handle other tasks that arise during the day but she suggests taking them on only if they are more important than the task at hand. If not, put the item at the end of the list. "Even if you were not able to complete all six tasks that you had on your list by the end of the day, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you completed the most important ones," she concludes."

Comments

[fitline]

i am very busy throughout my week as well as on weekends .Can you please tell me some tips regarding time management

[Alicia]

I have enjoyed reading your article about 'Self-Management: Building Your Day Based on Priorities'. It is very important to prioritize your tasks. I work as a women's lifestyle fitness coach and I have found that setting goals along with prioritizing tasks are very effective as well as practical because it provides concrete evidence of progress.

You have a great blog!

All the best.
Alicia Howard
Deja-Fit Lifestyle Fitness Coaching for Women
www.deja-fit.blogspot.com

[Liara Covert]

This Globe and Mail article is informative yet, limited in its description of rationale for time management. I applaud the writer for discussing a subject that has a great deal of meaning for people. I find that personalizing an issue with life stories becomes far more engaging to readers who then themselves often relate easier. As such, they're more likely to take issues to heart and apply them in useful ways to their own lives. Thanks for this posting!