The cocktail party conversations I have about what I do for a living reveal so much about the world. For example, if I say I have an Internet startup, people generally think: She’s unemployed. If I say I write a syndicated newspaper column that runs in 200 papers, people are impressed. If I tell people [...]
Browsing category "Time management"How to feel like you have time to read everything
Posted to: Productivity | Time management
June 10th, 2009
How to decide what to do next
Posted to: Time management
March 24th, 2009
One of the best parts about blogging is meeting people I would never meet in real life. Often, this means psychopaths, who use the C word in my comments section. But the best times, the people I meet are like Tony Morgan. He is a pastor and chief strategy officer at NewSpring Church, based in [...] Consistently successful careers stem from consistent personal decisions
Posted to: Productivity | Time management
March 16th, 2009
Consistency is an important part of any career. It’s not just doing good work all the time. It goes beyond what quality your work is to what quality of person you are. Being consistent is letting people know they can rely on you, and it’s following through on what you say you’ll do because that’s [...] Why you're lucky to be in the office between Christmas and New Years
Posted to: Office Politics | Time management
December 29th, 2008
One of the reasons my column runs in more than 200 newspapers is that I send out one blog post a week to about 1000 editors. I have to do the list manually because, big surprise, most editors at most papers do not subscribe to blogs. How I started taming my workaholic tendencies
June 27th, 2008
After my first visit to the farm, I quickly invited myself back. "I'm coming there without my kids," I told him. How to decide if your commute is too long
Posted to: Money | Time management
December 20th, 2007
The average daily commute in the U.S. is about 25 minutes. The shortest average daily commute is about 15 minutes for people living in Midwest cities like Witchita, Omaha, and Tulsa. New Yorkers have the longest commute — 38 minutes, which is six minutes longer than the average commute time in Chicago. The average commute [...] How to figure out which tasks you can ignore
December 17th, 2007
This week is the one-year anniversary of the week that I became so overwhelmed with my workload that I started to act like a crazy person. Lose ten pounds in two weeks by changing how you work
Posted to: Self-management | Time management
August 29th, 2007
The last time I wrote about losing weight was right after I had a baby and my agent told me that I would kill my career if I went on speaking engagements. "You look terrible" is what she told me. And I lost forty pounds in two months. Twentysomething: Making time for a blog and a full-time job
Posted to: How to blog | Time management
August 28th, 2007
By Ryan Healy – For the past six months I have been maintaining my blog, Employee Evolution. At this point I realize that the decision to start a blog is hard, but writing regularly is harder. So here is a list of tactics I've used to maintain a full-time, corporate job along side a full-time [...] Yahoo column: 5 Ways to avoid being overworked
Posted to: Productivity | Time management
August 23rd, 2007
In the information age, when almost everyone in every office is a knowledge worker, we're paid to process information. And since there's an infinite amount of information, there's an infinite amount of work. For everyone. Yahoo column: 6 Productivity tips to put time on your side
Posted to: Productivity | Time management
July 19th, 2007
It's telling that some of the most popular blogs focus on productivity. I learned this when I interviewed productivity gurus about their best time-management tips last year and it became the post that bloggers link to most often on Brazen Careerist. Yahoo column: Career ideas for a warm summer day
June 29th, 2007
Here's an idea: Instead of thinking of your summer vacation as something that detracts from your work, think of it as a way to boost your work performance — or even your business. New financial data highlights generational rifts
May 31st, 2007
A group of think tanks, lead by the Pew Charitable Trusts, found that for the first time, men in their 30s are earning less than their parents. For the first time ever, this generation will not be more well-off financially than their parents. What should we make of this new finding? Does this [...] Time management discussion with Ann Althouse (only sort of)
May 23rd, 2007
When you try to decide should you stay at your job or should you quit, you probably focus on the part of your job that is not core to you. For example, getting coffee for the boss. You do that and then your boss teaches you, say, how to review a fashion show in Milan. [...] Twentysomething: Best Buy gets it. Stop watching the clock.
May 22nd, 2007
By Ryan Healy — College taught me the true meaning of independence. I attended classes when I chose, I studied at my convenience, I partied at my leisure and I relaxed when I needed to relax. You would assume that since I am now an "adult," I would at least have this same [...] Yahoo column: Five steps to higher productivity
Posted to: Productivity | Time management
May 10th, 2007
One of the best ways to distinguish yourself at work is through productivity. We're all sifting through too much email, we all have more work than we can ever get done, and we all have access to more information than we could ever consume. If you don't like writing lists, buy a new pen
Posted to: Goal setting | Time management
May 9th, 2007
I am a list writer. I do it by hand. Every day. Sometimes three or four times a day, if I'm feeling really overwhelmed. Yahoo column: Breaking the perfection habit
April 26th, 2007
I'm not a perfectionist. In fact, when I painted my walls I didn't paint near the windows because I didn't want to do the detail work. When I accidentally address an envelope upside down, I don't get a new envelope. Use money to buy time
Posted to: Money | Time management
April 18th, 2007
Time is more important than money. You think that you know this, but you probably don't act on it as much as you could. If you spend your time buying material things then you are using up the one thing that can make you happy (time) on things that definitely don't make you happy (stuff). Estimate time more accurately by admitting you don't
Posted to: Productivity | Time management
April 12th, 2007
The first thing I did when I sat down to work today was do the easy stuff on my list that does not need to be done until the end of the week. Then, when I should have been going to bed, I started working on the stuff that has to be done today. |
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