{"id":247,"date":"2014-05-23T20:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2014-05-24T01:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T19:51:29","slug":"real-time-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/23\/real-time-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Time Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;I have a pretty good level of familiarity with various time and task management methods and tools.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I can&#8217;t seem to keep up. And no matter how close to keeping up I get, I still have a million things on &#8220;the list.&#8221; It seems like the only time management method that works is kind of like the old video game &#8220;Asteroids&#8221;&#8230;frantically try to knock things out before you get knocked out&#8230;you can never slow down, you can&#8217;t control the barrage, and you really never win. It isn&#8217;t pretty.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/1\/13\/Asteroi1.png\" alt=\"File:Asteroi1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll admit, that screenshot isn&#8217;t very intimidating but the screen fills up (and, let&#8217;s face it, it came out in 1979).<\/p>\n<p>Here is what time management seems to really boil down to.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just start&#8230;minimize planning&#8230;and do your planning during &#8220;offline&#8221; times (like during breakfast)<\/li>\n<li>Do everything as fast as you possibly can<\/li>\n<li>Instead of breaks, just switch to a different type of task (e.g., if you are doing concentrated work like development, take a &#8220;break&#8221; and make phone calls)<\/li>\n<li>Work all the time<\/li>\n<li>Operate as if there are no &#8220;big blocks&#8221; of time&#8230;anyway, you can&#8217;t wait for them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There you have it&#8230;strap in or hire an assistant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK&#8230;I have a pretty good level of familiarity with various time and task management methods and tools. Still, I can&#8217;t seem to keep up. And no matter how close to keeping up I get, I still have a million things on &#8220;the list.&#8221; It seems like the only time management method that works is kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[48,50,49],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-productivity","category-petes-comments","tag-productivity","tag-task","tag-time-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7FCNy-3Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prhconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}