Posts Tagged ‘time management’

Warning: Pinterest May be Habit Forming

In case you haven’t heard, Pin­ter­est, is a two-year-old social book­mark­ing site, that allows users to col­lect and share things about top­ics that inter­est them. I should say, obsess about. At the moment, for me this is about foods I will never pre­pare or ideas for wed­dings that may never hap­pen, or I could never afford. This wed­ding one is truly embar­rass­ing; I tell you it’s a sick­ness, an insid­i­ous sick­ness. And for that rea­son, I will be required to delete my daugh­ters from this Q-Clips distribution.

7 Things Highly Productive People Do

Hello Qclipers! We have been rush­ing to try and get one last issue out before the end of the year and as you can imag­ine it has not been easy given the “hol­i­day crunch”. Clients want to get many set­tled before the Christ­mas / New Years week and many of us at Quan­tum­Method take our vaca­tion time dur­ing that week as well. So, nee­dles to say it has been a chal­lenge. But, we did it!! I con­fess that I had a another topic in mind with more depth, but there is sim­ply no time for meet to write it, so I will save it for January.

Toastmasters

Recently I joined the local chap­ter of Toast­mas­ters and it’s one of the best deci­sions I’ve made. For those of you who aren’t famil­iar with Toast­mas­ters it is a lead­er­ship and com­mu­ni­ca­tions skills devel­op­ment group that has been around since the 1920’s…The whole thing is sim­i­lar in to a writ­ing work­shop where the group mem­bers eval­u­ate each oth­ers per­for­mances. While this sounds rather dull, let me assure you it is really a great time and extremely valuable.

Mutton Bustin’

Right up front I am going to tell you that this Qclip serves absolutely no pur­pose what-so-ever other than to hope­fully put a smile on your face. Do you know what Mut­ton Bustin’ is? I sure didn’t until I attended this years Cal­i­for­nia mid-state county fair in Paso Rob­les. And let me tell you…outrageous fun!

Take it offline. Unplugging for a while can be healthy!

I recently spent some time think­ing about the dreaded term “time man­age­ment” and how I could improve my pro­duc­tiv­ity at work and at home. After a thor­ough exam­i­na­tion of how I spend my time I real­ized just how much time I spend online or on the phone (email, tex­ting, talk­ing, gog­gling, doing research for work, LinkedIn, Twit­ter, etc).