Time Management
How to Make Time for Exercise
Why do we never seem to find time to exercise? Often, it gets put on the back burner, especially when other things come up. Personal Fitness and Nutrition Coach, Taryn Perry, tells us how to put aside the excuses and keep health and fitness on the front burner.
As busy moms, dads, corporate executives, [...]
6 Simple Time Management Tips
Hello, readers. Here’s hoping this post finds you well, as well as I felt on Sunday night. Most of the week has been an introspective one in that I have been thinking about how I could better organize my time. It’s more than just a planning process. Time management, for me, is the very focus [...]
Advice From the Social Media Swami: How to be the Master of Your Time
Today’s guest author is Shashi Bellamkonda, otherwise known as the Social Media Swami. He shares the three key strategies he uses to manage his very busy schedule.
In my work as Director of Social Media for Network Solutions (my business card title is Social Media Swami), I oversee four blogs and a fifth one is [...]
Time Saving Tips for Learning on The Go
Greetings, readers. I hope this post finds you in good spirits all around. I took the kids to Family Engineering Day 2010 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC this past weekend. A good time was had by all, but while this post is not about the trip itself, it jogged my memory about [...]
“Help, I need somebody…Help, not just anybody….”
The following takes place between 12 am and 11:15 pm on Monday, February 16th.
Greetings readers…
I hope your week went well and if you celebrate Valentine’s Day, I hope it was all you hoped for. My particular weekend, for once, was actually quiet from Friday night through Sunday evening (shudders!). Where it became hectic [...]
Time Out
Greetings, readers. It’s good to be back here at the OTR blog once again. I hope all of you are well. In my last blog post, I spoke of how I use tech and conventional methods to manage my time and as mentioned, the combination of the two works pretty well for me….generally.
I was [...]
Fact Friday: Juggling Tasks
People who multitask are actually less efficient than those who focus on one project at a time, according to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology.
[New Studies Show Pitfalls Of Doing Too Much at Once · Sue Shellenbarger · The Wall Street Journal · 02.27.2003 · Source: NAPO]
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Good Tech, Bad Distractions
We’re all prone to distractions, even yours truly. Unexpected things come up all the time that yank us away from what we really should be focusing on. More often than not, though, there are daily distractions that we allow to creep into our day. Some distractions have a bigger pull than others. The top two [...]
Fact Friday: Ready for Dinner Guests?
In the June 2009 NAPO public quick poll, 1,397 people answered the following question: How long would it take you to get your house ready for dinner guests? The results are as follows:
65% said “4 hours or fewer” (913 votes)
11% said “I’ll never invite anyone inside” (151 votes)
10% said “8 hours” (142 votes)
7% [...]
Fact Friday: Brainpower
“Managing two mental tasks at once reduces the brainpower available for either task.” [The Awful Truth Behind Multitasking · Avery Articles]
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