Introducing myself as a person looking to get better at Time Management
Hello,
I've had LB for a while, but I'm not sure I set things up optimally the first time around. LB was great for juggling many conflicting priorities in a previous job, but I stopped using it when I switched jobs a while back. After some soul searching, I'm convinced that I can significantly improve my life and my effectiveness by really thinking through my goals and starting to use LB the right way.
I started reading a book titled "Time Power" (by Brian Tracy) which seems to have a similar philosophy to LB. I'm curious if any of you have read that book (or some of his others, I hear they are all similar). The idea is to make your goals the really big dreams and to break those down into A,B,C,... and to break each of the letters into numbers based on priority. It seems to be a manual system for what LB does automatically. I'd like my time management system to be one that others I work with (ie: managers) can understand while also being effective for me. Does anyone have experience with this?
I have yet to look around most of the other areas in this forum, but my initial read is there is less discussion here than I had hoped. I was hoping to find pragmatic steps to get an effective time management system in place quickly. I'm willing to invest time to figure things out on my own, but I can't afford to waste time. (What a paradox!) Anyway, that's me. I hope to learn from each of you and maybe contribute something of my own as well!
-- Bob
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RE: Introducing myself as a person looking to get better at Time
Hi there Bob,
Thanks for taking the time to introduce yourself here.
I haven't read that particular book. I'm always interested to know of good ones to recommend to our community. It sounds like it would give you some food for thought as you get started. The Advice Book (which is more than a software manual) is also useful for understanding how Life Balance goes about things. Maybe you can knit the two sets of concepts together.
You can find that here:
http://www.llamagraphics.com/resources/documentation/index.php
If you are in a hurry to get the basics in mind, check out the audio lesson podcasts.
http://www.llamagraphics.com/audio/index.php
The forums here are definitely in transition. We are shifting topics from a "technical software support" focus (which is how they started) to a "support for reaching your goals" and "coaching" kind of focus. Our tech support activity has moved to the support center where there is better tracking of issues and the public knowledgebase of articles.
We added in a bunch of new topics recently, thinking to structure discussion along top level goals that a person might put into their outline. Those are just getting started, so feel free to jump in and start something! I have had some trouble in the past getting people to talk about their projects. ("I have a task A under a project B"... is not that helpful or interesting for anyone to read. The context matters. If we are talking about work or family life, or how to build a wildlife sanctuary. The more vivid it is, the easier it is to be helpful.) So, I thought the extra structure might begin to draw out the conversations like the one you mentioned about how to introduce Life Balance to your managers at work... under the "Career, work, gifts you bring to the world" topic, perhaps?
We also intend to move the forums out of DCForum soon. So, just because this is what it is now, doesn't mean it will stay this way. There are lots of changes in the works.
Best wishes,
--Catherine--*
Catherine E. White
President
www.llamagraphics.com
Creators of Life Balance software
for Palm OS, Macintosh and Windows.