Time Management Secrets Anyone Can Use

Time Management Secrets Anyone Can Use: If you're reading this article instead of doing your work, chances are good that you have trouble managing your time efficiently. You're not alone. According to a survey by Salary.com, the average worker admits to wasting about two hours of each eight-hour workday, not including lunch or scheduled breaks. While computers have dramatically increased efficiency, they have also provided the ultimate in distraction. The Web is like the next-door neighbor who keeps asking us to play when we know we have homework to do. It and e-mail offer so much distraction on a minute-by-minute, hour-by-hour basis that we find it nearly impossible to give our full attention to higher-level tasks. And because there are no defined edges to most of our projects--and certainly not to our workdays--we live in an endless jumble of work and life. We can book a trip to Mexico while participating in a conference call. We can send work e-mails from a chairlift above the ski slopes of Vermont. It's tough to establish boundaries and focus on any one thing.