Clearing Out Clutter Can Change Lives
5 April 2016In a recent article about protecting and improving our energy by clearing out clutter http://blog.gettingagrip.com/how-to-have-more-time-guard-your-energy I shared that I was eliminating one thing per day from my bedroom. (I’ve extended that to anywhere in my home or office.) You might like some of the great contributions that flowed in from readers. From Diane: ‘I […]
How To Have More Time – Guard Your Energy
22 March 2016I had a great contribution to one of my recent blog articles “How to Simplify Your Busy Life” from Diane. “One year I removed 1 item per day from my house and wrote it on the calendar. It was really amazing to do the actual writing down as it made you think ‘why had I kept […]
How To Simplify Your Busy Life
8 March 2016Is it just my noticing, or are you also seeing an increasing commentary and focus on decluttering and simplifying? It’s not just things: it could be activities or even people. Can You Reduce Driving Time? I had a big wake-up call a few weeks ago while chatting to my friend Elizabeth Jeffries over coffee. She […]
How to Control Your Inbox – Use Rules
12 November 2015As I work with people around the world on their productivity issues, everyone shares one common challenge – too much time spent on email. One really simple strategy can make a huge difference, and yet hardly anyone uses it. When correctly set up, Rules save you filing time, make it far easier to keep your […]
Some Strategies to Manage Overwhelm
21 October 2015Martin was a delegate at a conference. We’d been talking about daily planning and ‘to do’ lists. This is what he shared: “Robyn, you gave us some great advice about writing a list of all the things to do for the day, identifying just the top five, and working on them. The action […]
How to Save Time – Do It Right the First Time
22 September 2015For the first six months of this year I was housemother/flatmate/grandmother for my oldest grandson Sam, aged eighteen and in his final year of high school. His parents were on an overseas posting. Many times over that period I found myself saying, ‘Don’t put things off. Do it right the first time and you’ll save […]
Polar Opposities: Stress And Time Management
24 January 2014Which factors can affect your ability to manage time? You can probably name a handful of external factors, but that’s not what I’m highlighting here. Let’s talk about internal factors because these are things that you can control. Emotions and mindsets are examples of internal variables that dictate how you go about your day. Now […]
Top 10 Ways To Reach Your Productivity Goals
15 January 2014Have you ever started something and quit halfway? One of the most difficult parts of doing tasks is completing them. This is also true when it comes to time management and productivity goals. Writing down your goals was the easy part. Applying your new, ideal schedule can feel impossible, especially when things don’t go your […]
How To Save Reading Time
5 June 2013Smart people don’t retain information they have no immediate need for. In a coaching call once with Ross Richards, he said, ‘I’d like to work on my planning techniques now. I don’t feel I have good management in that area.’ ‘Do you remember what I wrote about in the April and May issues?’ I asked. […]
An office survival tactic I don’t recommend!
28 September 2012Here’s a novel way of managing an overloaded desk – clogged with debris, paperwork, files ….. a town tip, in other words. Last night, as I was speaking to the Canterbury branch of NZ Organisation for Quality, member Ailsa Milner shared this story. ‘I once worked for a man who had terrible paper management habits. […]