Time Management and Personal Productivity

Take Control of Your Work Life by Learning How to Manage Time

Welcome to Time Management Solutions – a website about time management,  personal productivity and personal organization! I want to show you how to be more productive at work, and also generally in your life.

By using the techniques I show you here, you will be able to get more done, even if you use less time at work!

This site contains articles, which will teach you the basic knowledge of managing time, while guiding you towards a path of developing yourself also in other in related areas. The articles should also help you to organize yourself better in your everyday life, e.g. by helping you to define your goals. There is also a section on stress management, which many have found useful. One should never panic, but maintain a calm mind, even when the going gets tough, at work.

I also discuss my personal views and own experiences in managing time more freely. I am committed to sharing my own experiences in leadership, managing people, and in improving personal time management skills. The blog is also the place where I might touch more controversial issues, like how to manage finances efficiently, or keeping your weight in control, despite late evenings with customers.

Within time management it is easy to get obsessed of fine tuning things, wasting tens or even hundreds of hours for finding the perfect iPhone app or some other new system. Most often it is possible to get the same results by just following a few simple principles.

If there is one general rule I want to promote on this site it is this: stop wasting time!

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Maximize Your Free Time

I can offer a lot of advice on how to manage time, cope with a big workload, while at the same time trying to minimize stress. But… what does all this mean pragmatically? In practical terms, your first goals might be as follows:

 you want to stop losing any important emails or papers

 you want to stop forgetting what you have promised to your boss and peers, and stop missing any deadlines

 your want a calendar that only contains important and meaningful entries.

Those three goals could be a good starting point.

Can they be achieved? Yes, they can. How long will i take? Well, my own experience is that change is quite slow in this sense. You should tackle one thing at a time. The good part is that even the first steps you take towards better personal time management will start freeing more time for you. Therefore, no matter what your current level is, you should not be discouraged. In stead you should joy of the potential you have just in front of you.

Your boss will also sooner or later notice your new level of personal productivity. Or maybe you are the boss yourself, and sometimes you feel overwhelmed by all the projects, tasks, and situations you are responsible for.

I found myself in exactly this situation before I got help through the kind of solutions I show you here, at this site. I know from personal experience that these techniques really work!

You really experience less stress when you learn skills in managing time. Step by step, you will start to feel that you are in command and on the top of things. You should also able to enjoy your new-found additional slots of time! What do you love to do? Would you like to take on a lost hobby?

Managing Time with Practical, Selected, and REALLY Working Solutions

What is the source? The methods I discuss, I have found by:

1. studying relevant literature
2. observing productive individuals, and discussing with them
3. attending seminars, and
4. testing things out, and gaining my own experience

To be honest, there are no incredible super secrets at our site. Almost everything we offer here, you could at least theoretically find out yourself, if you would just start to do some serious searching. However, I can tell you it has taken me well over 500 hours of studying, and searching for relevant time management sources to get this far.

This site will help you progress faster.

I am only interested in the most practical and efficient time management techniques. Most of them I will share with you here, for free!

Personal Time Management 101 – Crash Course

Here are some basic steps, which should give you a basic idea of what it takes to get you going:

1. Define what you want out of life. Do this by listing your goals and values. What do you really want out of life? When you do this step thoroughly, you will notice a difference. You will also see that 90% of people have not completed this first essential step towards a more constructive life.
2. Figure out some next steps towards your life goals. After that, start taking small steps towards them. We offer follow-up forms, which help you better see where you are today, and in verifying if you are actually doing anything to reach your goals. If you define your goals tonight, you can start taking steps tomorrow. Even if these are fundamental steps, they do not have to take forever. You can always come back and revise your goals later.
3. If you are really stressed, start using some of the exercises we suggest for managing stress in our dedicated section for that.
4. Take a firm control of your everyday tasks, and projects. This is a basic time management habit needed at our hectic workplaces today. Techniques of these sorts really represent “hands on” time management. Knowing that you have your tasks under control will also help you in staying calmer. Stress won’t catch you, at least so easily.
5. Take control of your incoming paper flow (brochures, magazines, invoices, etc.). Organize your existing papers and documents too, while you are at it.
6. Clean your desk at work, and keep it clean. You will notice that you now actually can pull it off, as you already have taken care of your paper piles. Who would have thought? Do you start to realize the joy of increased skills in personal organization? It really benefits your time management.
7. Transform your email software from an task overwhelming enemy to an effective tool, which actually helps you keeping in control of things. You will find joy in an empty email inbox, once you learn how to do it. Keep it empty. You will learn this too. Make Outlook or Lotus your ally.
8. Start using your increased free time to develop yourself in new or lost areas of life. What was again that hobby you once had?

Increasing your personal productivity, and learning personal time management skills are possible things to accomplish for anyone. It is a fun journey, and one that is highly recommended. Just taking a few steps to the right direction could start saving 10-20 minutes of your time, every single day from here onwards. This is exactly why I am so excited about this subject.

The potential for change is often huge: the average savings potential for most individuals during a workday is at least one full hour. That is one hour more, per day, you can use for going earlier home, or for speeding up your career advancement. It is also an investment into a higher quality of work. You are free to use your new-found time anyway you like, just use it more wisely than you do today. Take control of your personal and work life now!

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-Harri Jussila, Managing Editor