Time Management

How to STOP Wasting Time

by Jan Hayner
How many times have you said, “I just don’t have enough time” or “I wanted to get more finished today, but I ran out of time”? We seem to start the day off great in the morning, and somehow by midday, we feel like we are ‘behind’ and are constantly play catch-up the [...]

Can Multitasking Ruin Your Work Life Balance?

by Bill Lee-Emery
When my daughter was very young, she would wander into my office and want to chatter, see what I was doing and generally get my undivided attention. In the early days I tried to multitask and distract her while I continued to write that very important letter, or finish the project I was [...]

You Can Have an Organized Day in 4 Easy Steps

by Jan Hayner
Sometimes don’t you feel like you are running around in circles and have lost control?
You will get a lot more accomplished and have less stress in your life if you follow four steps to organizing your time. Most of the stress and ‘running out of time’ that we experience, is due to a [...]

A New Year’s Resolution - Simplify Your Life

by Kelly Sims
Time is something of which none of us seems to have enough. We live in a fast-paced world of new technologies designed to keep us moving faster and faster. Such things as microwave ovens, cell phones and high-speed internet allow us to accomplish our tasks in less time, but instead of enjoying this [...]

Create Better Audio Recording – Pay Less For Transcription

by Allissa Owen-Williams
The quality of your audio material recording is the most important factor in terms of time and cost when using outsourcing agencies to transcribe your audio material into professional text based documents. Therefore it is vital to ensure good quality recording of your audio material in the first instance.
Time Equals Cost
Transcription outsourcing agencies [...]

I’m too Busy! Steps to a Balanced Life

by Norma LaForme M.Div
With all of us working at more then one job, Networking in order to connect with new clients, Connecting with current clients, finding time for ourselves can be a real challenge. This article is to first of all discuss the problems with not having a work/life balance and then to discuss how [...]

Choose to Make Your Day Dynamic

by Miami Phillips
There are two ways to start your day.
The first is to dive in; tackling whatever is in front of you. You might check your emails. This is an interesting beginning as it is always possible something fun and new came in since you last looked.
Email is fun! And of course - it is [...]

Don’t Underestimate Procrastination

by Miami Phillips
How good are you at taking action on a thought you have? It is so easy to talk about action, but a completely different thing altogether to put it to practice.
There is a part in each of us that will let us know an action is needed, but once we allow our conscious [...]

Make Your Meetings More Productive

by Kent Jacobson
Oh no, not another meeting request! We all dread the meeting invitation, not because of the content, but because a majority of meetings we have to attend are so poorly run. You know a good productive meeting vs. the unstructured, why am I here, one. Do not let the next meeting you hold [...]

10 Tips for Managing Your Time

by Mark Wardell
1. Plan the following day at the end of each day.
This is the time your mind is most clear. If you try to plan your day in the morning, you become distracted by your e-mail, your voicemail, the telephone, your employees, your customers, and so forth. It’s nearly impossible to think rationally about [...]