Time Management Resources

Do you feel frustrated, can't achieve your goals, or carry important tasks forward from one day to the next? You may need better time management.

These pages can get you started.

Read our one-page synopsis of the principles of time management on-line or download our one-page QuickGuide.

We also have a full guide to time management and how Qlockwork can help you make more of your time, covering:

• Setting goals
• Self-assessment using Qlockwork
• Bad habits and how to overcome them
• Harvesting time.

Further Reading

If you want to read more about time management, here are some useful sites

• Time tips from "Getting Things Done". "Getting Things Done" is a well-known time scheduling programme devised by a chap called David Allen. We've used it and it works well. At David's site, there are some good articles and tools.
• Time management and motivation articles from Mark Forster ("Get Everything Done"). Mark Forster is a time management guru with a more "psychological" approach than David Allen. He has articles on his website about why we don't use our time as effectively as we could. He also has an interesting estimation skills questionnaire that points out how bad we all are at making judgements like "I'm 90% sure X will happen".
• Why does software work take so long? This article is targeted at time management for software developers, but makes some good general points.
• Microsoft Office Productivity Blog. For Office fans out there, Melissa Macbeth's Microsoft blog has hints and tips on task lists and other time-saving features of Office. The articles include E-mail etiquette and Outlook 2007 and "Getting Things Done".
• The 80-20 productivity rule. The 80-20 rule is the idea that 20% of your effort achieves 80% of your results. So, getting the last 20% of the way is very expensive – you should think hard about whether you really need that last 20%. There are a lot of articles on this subject, here's one that focuses on business productivity.
• The pickle jar theory of prioritization. Everyone must have heard the pickle jar analogy by now, but it is cute.