subject: Free Time Management Tools For New Managers [print this page] Time management is crucial and learning some of the keys that I've used to get more out of less may be helpful to establish your online presence. Time is the most valuable asset that we've got. It goes every second that passes that's why we need free time management tools.
If you haven't read Getting Things Done by David Allen, that's a book that you need to read. I've read a lot of time management books and, hands down it's the best book out there on time management. Another really good one is The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker as well. I just want to give you some of the key nuggets if I can from Getting Things Done.
The first thing I would suggest is that you carry a notebook and I always carry my notebook, no matter where I go. Always you just write down everything. I got Richard Bandler to sign my book after I took his notes but apparently he's quite paranoid because a lot of people have ripped him off in the past. He won't sign a blank bit of paper, he wanted to sign over my notes because that way I couldn't take and replicate his signature. The moral of that story was not so much about how paranoid he was but rather the importance of making sure that you always use these time management tips at work and carry a notebook just to get it out of your head.
Things float around, you'll always have these seo methods and ideas pop up into your head. It's almost like your brain is like a vacuum. It can only hold so much though and if it's full, nothing new will get in there. So you need to use your notebook to get all of your ideas out into a notebook and that creates space and then new ideas will flood into it. So you should be carrying a notebook with you wherever you go, just to get it out of your head.
The next thing, it's important to use calendars and free time management tools the right way. A lot of Melbourne SEO people use calendars for to do lists. The way that you should use a calendar, I use Google Calendar and it is a fantastic tool if you don't use it.
I always log in through Gmail because it's got the links up the top. So in it I've got SEO workshops, I didn't plan much the day before because I was just doing notes. You can actually set up different calendars for different things. Green I use for my own personal things, red is for work, I've even got a birthdays one as well and a few things like that. You can even have team member calendars as well. I know when different team members are coming into the office.
The way you should be using your calendar, and the good thing about the calendar as well, when you use Google Calendar is, you can access it on your iPhone. So I've always got that calendar on me. Rather than to do tasks and monitor these using free time management tools, you should be entering in only appointments as keynote speaker, that's what a calendar is for.
