Tag Archives: time
How Much Vacation Time Is Necessary?
When I was living in the United States, we had 2 weeks off per year as standard vacation time – although I did work somewhere where we only had 1 week off. Not so in Europe. Many countries there give employees 5 or 6 weeks off per year. The argument for more time off is [...]
- Thursday, July 15th, 2010,
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Using Spare Time: What Can You Do in 10 Minutes?
Imagine you have a scheduled appointment or phone call in 10 minutes (let’s assume that you’re fully prepped for the appointment – or it’s not the type of thing that requires advanced work). 10 minutes is not enough time to tackle a major project, but still enough time to accomplish some small task. The question [...]
- Friday, July 2nd, 2010,
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5 Awesome Web Based Time Tracking Software Solutions
As a web worker, I understand the importance of time tracking. You’ll always find me urging people to track the time they spent working. Why? Well, there are distractions galore. There are social networking sites, YouTube, chat and what not. Hence, at the end of the day, I want to see how many hours I [...]
- Monday, June 28th, 2010,
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How to Fight Creative Time Wasting
I was going to write this earlier, but decided to work on another project first. Then fresh emails beckoned. Then I ate dinner. I found every which way to do everything but the task at hand…even though I knew full well that I had to get it done. Combating these “creative time-wasters” is something ew [...]
- Monday, June 28th, 2010,
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Are Modern Conveniences Really a Time Saver?
Real Simple recently discussed modern time savers that aren’t all the supposed “improvements” that we twenty-first century folk take for granted. You know…things like microwaves, iPhones and the DVR. The author makes a very valid point. Many of these innovations are a good idea in theory but actually end up requiring more time, not less. Take [...]
- Friday, June 25th, 2010,
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Time-Saving Tips for Life Stuff
From reading the posts and comments throughout WorkAwesome, it seems that a common complaint of many of the writers and readers is a lack of time. Hopefully this is because you are too busy with work and raking in the financial benefits that come with this. Perhaps you’ve got a busy life – and you [...]
- Friday, June 11th, 2010,
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How to Find More Hours in the Day
We’ve all wished for more than 24 hours in a day, but short of developing the powers to bend the laws of space and time, that’s not going to happen. But one thing we can do is bend the ways we use the hours at our disposal. If you look hard enough, you can discover [...]
- Friday, June 11th, 2010,
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How to Time Your Tasks
You’ve likely heard about The Two Minute Rule – we’ve even discussed it here atWorkAwesome recently. Keeping track of how long it takes to do tasks is important, as is keeping tabs on your time so you don’t spend too much time on anything that doesn’t require it. How do you keep tabs on your time? Here’s [...]
- Friday, May 28th, 2010,
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The Rock Solid Reflection Plan
One of the best ways – some would say the only way – to keep tabs on where you’re at and where you’re headed in terms of being productive is by looking back on where you’ve been. It’s challenging to do this regularly. Really challenging. What’s more is that many people don’t do it at [...]
- Thursday, May 20th, 2010,
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How to Avoid Wasting Time in Meetings
There are two types of people in the world: those who organize meetings, and those who hate them. If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you fall into the latter category. The typical reason for hating meetings is simple: they’re usually a waste of time. Status updates that could be sent by email, entered into [...]
- Wednesday, January 6th, 2010,
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