I have spent much time studying time management, or something I often refer to as Me Management since you can't control time, but you can control what you do between the ticks of the clock. Here are ten strategies that, when implemented, are…

In last week’s newsletter, I made note of the idea that humans live around 4,000 weeks, an idea that caused one of my relations to confront her aversion to Mondays, the very reason I initially did the math. This newsletter is also about time, and…

Whatever is your most important outcome, do the work required until completion, or until you have made enough progress to reach a natural breaking point—and enough progress to stay on course. If you don’t start with the most important outcome,…

Some projects and tasks make it onto your to-do list or your task manager without much thought or consideration. Ideas, requests, or opportunities show up, and they appear important enough for you to write them down. You have every intention of…

The elevator door opened and I started to walk out when I noticed I had only gone from the 7th floor to the 6th floor. I had pushed the button to go to the lobby. This wasn’t one of those times when you are on an elevator and not paying…

In a list of prospective clients you can spend your time pursuing, a few of them are more worth your time than all the rest combined. You may need to reach out to all of them, but it makes sense to start with those few that matter.

The hundreds…

You don’t have time to make all of the calls you need to make right now. But you do have the time to make one or two of them.

You don’t have enough time to nurture every dream client on your target list right now. But you do have time to make a…

It’s a leader’s job to say no.

To be an effective leader, you have to say “no” to all of the opportunities that show up on your desk but aren’t aligned with your goals. Saying “yes” to all of the opportunities that might be interesting…

Look at the emails in your inbox right now. I don’t have to see your inbox to know that you have a problem with email. We all have the same problem.

Some large number of the emails that show up in your inbox each day are commitments that are…

You can’t manage your time. Time is something over which you have zero control. You can’t find more time because there isn’t any more. You have all you are going to have, do with it what you may.

Even though you can’t find or make more time,…