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Time Management Booklet

See this page also: Time Management (janeleurekas.blogspot.com)

SEINFELD METHOD

One example of a method for keeping track of your streaks is the Seinfeld strategy, which involves marking a big red X in your calendar on each day where you complete your daily goal. Alternatively, if you’re using a time-management app, it’s likely that it will have a setting that will allow you to keep track of your streaks in the app.

The Eisenhower Matrix. This method involves categorizing each task that you have based on whether it’s important or unimportant and based on whether it’s urgent or not urgent, and then prioritizing your tasks based on these criteria.

Stephen Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, also wrote 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families. He has a very impactful perspective on time management. His idea is that we do things most of the time that are urgent and important - "putting out fires" - and never get to the most important longer term projects we want to accomplish, because at this moment they are not urgent.

The Ivy Lee method. This method involves preparing a to-do list at the end of each day, and writing down a list of six tasks that you want to complete tomorrow, ranked in order of importance.

Pomodoro Technique, which is a time-management technique where you use a timer in order to organize your workflow. The Pomodoro Technique entails working on your tasks for a set amount of time (e.g. 25 minutes), and then taking a short break (e.g. 5 minutes), before starting to work again. In addition, as part of the Pomodoro, once you complete a certain number of work cycles (e.g. 4 cycles), you can take a longer break (e.g. 30 minutes), before getting back to work.

http://weekplan.net/

Covey Matrix

So Covey is also a partner with the Franklin Planners company: http://www.franklincovey.com/

With Weekly Planner at http://weekplan.net/, you can rate your to do list items by the Covey Matrix categories. You also can break up your to do list items by the roles you play in your life.

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (Nov 9, 2004)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families by Stephen R. Covey and Sandra M. Covey (Oct 1, 1997)

I think I've found it! The ultimate organizer for your to do lists, and more! It's http://smartsheet.com/

Project Management

Some of the popular templates available with smartsheet:

Project Tracker: An easy way to track the latest status of project tasks.
Issue Tracker: Track issue status and resolution - great for IT, Help Desk or project teams.

Marketing

Event Management: A good starting point for planning and executing your event.
Marketing Dept. Goals: Track high level goals and actual performance against target metrics.

Sales

Sales Pipeline: Keep it simple - contact info, sales stage, forecast amount, close date and next steps.
Client Contact List: Track key client information in a sheet that can be shared.

Legal & Finance

M&A Due Diligence: Grouped tasks for collecting due diligence information in an M&A transaction.
IPO - Time & Responsibilities: Schedule of tasks for the key phases of an Initial Public Offering.

Nonprofit Organizations

Charity Auction - Donated Items: Keep a record of donated items, item value and donor info.
Donor List: Share donor info and coordinate outreach efforts.

Non-Business

Wedding Planning Checklist: Month-by-month countdown for planning and executing a wedding.
Home Remodel Punchlist: A simple layout for tracking items to be completed before sign-off on your remodel.

Homework