Management guru Peter Drucker says that “crisis management is actually the form of management preferred by most managers.” What is ironic is that actions taken before the crisis could have prevented it in the first place.

2. The telephone. Have you ever had one of those days when you just had to answer the phone with

Identifying your time stealers

In order for a time management process to work it is important to know what aspects of our personal management need to be improved. Otherwise what is the point in trying?

On the next post you will find some of the most frequent reasons for reducing effectiveness in and around our lives. You might want to check the ones which are causing to be the major obstacles to your own time management. These are referred to as your time stealers. See you on the next post.

Effective goal setting begins and ends with time management. You must be able to balance your time in the best way possible in order to achieve your goals. Most of us fail to achieve goals because we

After you’ve set your goal, make a list of things that may threaten the successful achievement of the goal and what you can do to remove those threats.

For example, are you and your spouse or child fighting over some of these goals? Write down ALL the obstacles that you feel may prevent you from reaching your goal.

This is a particularly magical part of goal setting because it takes all of the obstacles that seemed so huge before and reduces them to little letter that form words on a piece of paper. Once the obstacles are clearly defined, they are more often than not, easily solved.