Comments on Business Blog: Managing Your Time

Hello. And Bye.

2009-11-29T19:45:37.495-08:00

Hello. And Bye.

It is very interesting for me to read the article....

2009-11-19T12:56:04.151-08:00

It is very interesting for me to read the article. Thank author for it. I like such topics and anything connected to them. I definitely want to read more soon.

It was certainly interesting for me to read that a...

2009-11-18T22:03:03.089-08:00

It was certainly interesting for me to read that article. Thanks for it. I like such themes and anything connected to this matter. I would like to read a bit more on that blog soon.

Hiring a Virtual Assistant can do wonders for your...

2009-06-26T14:53:48.987-07:00

Hiring a Virtual Assistant can do wonders for your time management. Delegating tasks to the right professional allows one to focus on revenue growth and relationship building.

Hi Bill,Thank you for your time and effort to post...

2008-05-05T12:45:00.000-07:00

Hi Bill,

Thank you for your time and effort to post your comment.

I completely agree with you and as you have mentioned, different situations and domains require different approaches. You cannot outline a set of rules that will work for anyone, anytime and anywhere.

Likewise, chatting on the phone may turn very useful as well as totally useless surfing can lead to an important discovery. Sometimes we find important things when doing totally useless browsing on the web.

Let's transfer to negotiations. Very often "wasting" the negotiation time is a clever strategy. Why? Because people do more concessions when they are under time pressure. Therefore, "wasting time", which under normal circumstances is an inefficient act, here may turn out to be a decisive strategy.

Again, the important thing is to understand that NON-URGENT/NON-IMPORTANT task are those that eat up those valuable 80% of your time. Therefore, a two-hour shower was brought as a vivid example to demonstrate one of the quadrants on the time matrix to better explain the President Eisenhower's method.

P.S. A friend of mine, a cardio surgeon, tells me that taking long showers with very hot water (like many people do) can lead to a heart attack.

I believe that you left out the most important rul...

2008-05-05T10:56:00.000-07:00

I believe that you left out the most important rule.

Rule one is: Manage your focus and time to meet your objectives, and circumstances. Evaluating time management without a purpose is very difficult to do. BUT with a purpose the use of time can take on different forms. Taking a 2-hour shower to relax and think can be considered an excellent time management process, IF getting real clean and relaxed is your objective. But if the objective were to clean up fast to meet an important person in 30 minutes, then taking a long shower would be considered bad time management

The time management issues facing a basketball coach are much different than those facing a baseball manager. Whereas the basketball coach has constrained time issues during the play of the game, he will want to be concise and efficient to focus on winning the game. The baseball manager might want to become very inefficient and slow to win a game, when replacing a pitcher, to give the relief pitcher more time to warm up.