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"To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely,
never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never
losing our sense of the enormous value of each minute." (Robert
Updegraff)
Five Essential Time Management Strategies and Techniques
To Increase Productivity and Reduce Stress
How to personally implement Time Management Strategies and
Techniques is an essential skill for not only for life coaches to be
able to pass on to their clients, but for any business or
professional person.
Why? Because lack of time is often one of the key issues to come
up with people wanting to set and achieve their personal and
business goals.
So if you are working with them around goal setting, you can be
almost sure time management come up in the conversation. The
two are so interwoven.
Robyn Pearce is one of the world’s foremost and most engaging
experts on time management. In this interview she discuss five
her vital time management strategies and techniques:
1. Why traditional “To Do” lists don’t work
2. Personal time management in dealing with overwhelm
3. Mastering the steps of delegation
4. Getting over the 'you've got mail' syndrome and managing
email better
5. Claiming your energy back from time stealers
My first question to Robyn was:
You say traditional "TO DO" lists often don't work. Why is this?
Robyn: To do lists ARE actually really important in learning time
management. The interesting thing is that most people will make
a To Do list and then start with the easiest thing first. That’s not
always the case, but I would say that around 80% of the people I
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