The articles on this website tell you how to create your Time Edge. The Time Edge is not traditional "Time Management" but a fresh approach that allows you to take control of your life. It is about taking control of your time and how you spend it.....and not allowing other people to spend it for you by pressing their agenda on you. The Time Edge is broken down into the following categories:
The Time Edge You can't manage time, but you can manage the commitments you make. Learn about the egg timer concept and change the grains in the timer. Don't just allow the grains of sand to slip through the egg timer - change them to represent things that are truly important to you.
Time as a Commitment "Time Management" is not really about time, but it is about management....and how to conquer the issues that time presents. Understanding time as a commitment means coming to grips with the choices you make about how you choose to spend your time.
Time Bandits Everybody’s day gets clogged up with things that they shouldn’t be handling that (all too effectively) steal their time. Identifying and eliminating these "Time Bandits" is one of the first and most important steps in changing and improving the time accountability dynamic.
Time as a Commitment Learn how to become accountable for your time by changing the things you allow into your day. Identify the things that you have in your day that you shouldn't be doing yourself....and figure out how to eliminate them.
Time Execution When you take control of your day, eliminate Time Bandits and practice Time Accountability, to maximize the gain you need to adopt a time management system that works for you. There are a number of different options .... you have to pick one and implement it.
Organizational Time The final step is driving Time Accountability through the organization. If executives find this difficult, employees will have even more trouble gaining control. Assuming that they will be able to do so is a leap of faith that is, at best, optimistic and at worst downright foolhardy.
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