How Do You Manage your Time
16 June, 2009, 11:00 am
Who is a great commander of their time? My guess is that very few of us in the 21st century could ever be Physicists, Theologians, Inventors and Artists, Yet just a few centuries ago there were men like Newton, Galileo, and Michelangelo who might be known for one thing, but were actually brilliant in all of these areas!
The Rant
We don’t quite accomplish that much. Maybe its because we have come to understand the value of specialization. By the way, since you can’t really hear the sarcasm in my voice when I say “value in specialization,” I will just tell you that I feel a good deal of sarcasm writing it.
Specialization is another word for dehumanization. I am an author, a marketer, a blogger, a husband, a father, and hopefully a pastor soon. I want to do all these things well. And so to ask me to specialize is to ask me to do only one thing well. So If you think I should specialize, Screw You! By the way, neither should you.
The Point
Now on to the point. If we are to effectively manage our time in a digital world, we need to find the best tools to do so. I am going to throw out a few options to you. Try as many as you wish, and see what you like best. Over the next few days we will be exploring each of these options for managing your time.
All are free, all are online. There will be no paper. There will be only iphones, keyboards, blackberries, and laptops. So here are a few choices which we will explore in greater detail.
Why not go ahead and sign up with some of these and take them for a test drive? In the coming days we will explore some of the pros and cons of each and how to best use them. I invite you to use my contact form or the comments below to let me know of others that you like and why.
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- Does SpringPad make you as happy as me?
- Never send out a partial feed
- Small change with a great plugin
- Time management tool for firefox
- Persistence and Putting videos online
I love todoist.com. It is very easy to use and has a Firefox sidebar.
It is very easy to reschedule or move tasks around – you can also add tasks directly from Launchy if you use that. I haven’t used it with Gmail yet, but I know you can.
It’s possible to be specialized into multiple things, thus broadening the specialization : )