You’re probably familiar with the concept of time estimation, but have you heard about time allocation? What exactly is the difference between estimating your time and allocating your time? Accurately estimating time is hard. Time estimation is both an art and a science. For repetitive and simple tasks, you can
Often, it’s easier for us to see the damage done by outside forces and ignore our own actions that lead to bad outcomes and habit building. In this article, we’re tackling the concept of throwing boomerangs, how they affect you and what you can do to master it. Not that
“Slacking off is wrong. You’re harming your progress whenever you’re taking breaks and not staying 100% focused on your goals.” Have you heard this before? It’s a common thing in the workplace and sometimes we end up applying this mentality in our personal lives as well. But what if I
Technology tools are created each day. Their purpose? They make our life easier. The same goes for auto-schedulers. These tools use artificial intelligence to create your schedule. Their promoters bring up arguments like saving time and leaving guesswork off the table when comparing auto-schedulers to manually planning your day. But
Do you maintain a task list where you check things off as you go throughout your day? What if I told you there are things you’re leaving off the list? Things that are so common, you don’t even think about them. You don’t even realize how they eat time from
Tasks and activities come in different shapes and forms. We must understand how much time to spend on each of them for better management of our days. What happens when we are faced with a new task, for example? How do we know how much time to spend on it
Building a startup is hard work. I’ve been developing Day Optimizer over the past few years alone. Many of you have watched as I created a structured methodology aimed at helping you build realistic daily plans, and then implemented that methodology into the desktop + mobile web application that is
Yesterday I was a guest on The Mark Struczewski Podcast. One of the things we talked about was the “zero notification” productivity hack, and why it was unproductive—it wastes time to check for updates which are important but infrequent, and sometimes important and urgent situations arise that require attention. Yet,
I was recently interviewed by Keri Roberts on the Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things podcast about my entrepreneurship journey over four businesses, including Day Optimizer, my current startup. Some of the topics we covered include: What worked and what didn’t with my previous businesses How to know when you need
I was recently interviewed by Jeff Mendelson on the One Big Tip podcast. Some of the topics we covered include: To find out my One Big Tip, listen to the episode below or on the web site, or read the transcript. Let me guess you signed up for every free