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Time Management for Teens

Link: Time Management for Teens by Jason Womack.

Starting on September 30, noted professional workplace performance trainer, coach and consultant Jason Womack will share his time management techniques for teens. Jason has agreed to provide us with 10 monthly sessions that will vary in format from short essays to narrated powerpoints and podcasts.

Do you know anyone in the 12-20 year old range that is struggling with "time management?" Using my experience as a high school and college student, then a junior high, high school, city college teacher AND then my years as an executive coach, I'm stepping up to share what I know with a group of people who can use time management tips and tools right now.

Please do spread the word/and the link above!

Thanks...

Ottawa, Canada - 1 November 2007 - Work Performance Seminar: Maximize Your Valuable Time, Energy, Focus & Tools

Below, you will see the press release and invitation announcement about the upcoming Work Performance Seminar:  Maximize Your Valuable Time, Energy, Focus & Tools seminar on 1 November in Ottawa, Canada. Please help spread the word!

The Jason Womack Company

Every technology professional I know, says “there is too much to do”. Most of us are going flat out trying to get as much done as we can ... and it never seems to be enough. The productively tools we have at our disposal are improving ... but are we really using them to our full advantage? Are we set up to succeed, or are we struggling to survive?

In his only Ottawa appearance this year, author and professional speaker Jason Womack spends a whole day providing practical, hand-on ideas on how you can get more done with less stress and better results.

Running in Hemingford Abbots, UK

Link: Running in Hemingford Abbots, UK

While visiting friends who live near Cambridge, I went out one morning for a light jog through the small town they live in...Hemingford Abbots.

Before I knew it, I was in the (next) small town of St. Ives, and I saw a large statue of Oliver Cromwell. Turns out he lived here for about 5 years, "way back when!" Here's a picture:

Does a new e-mail get your attention?

Link: Shared Spaces ... the Collaboration Advisor: When Email Loses Its Power of Attention, Feb 16 2006.

My friend Michael Sampson asks:

What do you do when people you communicate with do not respond to your messages ... your requests are ignored, it seems like they don't care, and the effectiveness of your communication diminishes because anything you send disappears into an apparent black hole at their end?

What do you really want?

When you think about personal productivity and workplace performance, what do you want? I mean, what do you really, really want?

Read the following quote:

I believe very few people actually think about managing time; what they really want is to get more things done. It's not about time management ... no one has enough time - if you are to look at it that way.

1440 minutes in a day is not enough to get everything done that we want to work on. What's the key? Focus Management, taking a look around your workspace realizing where you have the most productive value.

This is a transcribed message I sent myself using Jott - www.Jott.com. I was driving away from a meeting with a new client, and in a barrage of voice mail messages that turned into transcribed e-mail messages, I re-read this when I got back to the computer later that night.

Help! I'm looking for the "cool" jobs

So,

Sitting here brainstorming, writing and moblogging from the coffee shop (because I can!), I am writing to ask for your help.

I met up with a friend of mine who told me about his wife's (www.perla.com) ideas to help teens find their interests and use their education! That led me to wonder what I could do...

Would you comment here on this blog, identifying a "job you didn't know existed"?

I will be most appreciative.

I am in the process of putting together a presentation for high school and junior high school students (and teachers, shhhh!!!) called:

20 in 20: The Jobs You Don't Know About...Yet

My plan is to find twenty of the jobs students might not have heard about that would at least peak their curiosity, and perhaps even inspire them to take a "bit" more interest in learning, and their own education.

I am starting this project today, hoping to present my first one by the end of the month. With your help, this will be a success!

Thank you in advance!

How do you procrastinate, and what do you do about it?

I saw my friend Tyler today (Tyler Suchman) and he let me know there is a blog thread going on about procrastination. I couldn't wait to see it! Click the link below:

Link: The Ojai Post

One of our Authors here on the Post is stunningly good at workplace performance. I've seen Jason Womack in his element, and he has a serious talent for making the little things in life work in harmony with the big picture.

My question for our audience today - to what extremes do you go to procrastinate, and what do you do to get back in your groove?

I have a favor to ask THIS community...anyone reading this post, would you mid taking 3 minutes and typing out YOUR cure to procrastination? We all go there, some times, and we all get out. What do YOU DO?

I'll start off with one of mine! Read on...

Why do some websites ask me to type in scanned words?

I had heard about this before, but never really understood it until reading Kevin Kelly's blog post today. Thanks Kevin!

Link: Conceptual Trends and Current Topics.

...one of the persistent hurdles in the great effort to digitize books is distorted text on many scanned pages of old books -- text which cannot be read by a computer. The computer software can read most of the words, but it gets stuck on a few that are blurry or ragged on the scan.

 

Transcription of a recent tele-seminar

Well, after presenting this "over-the-phone," I was asked if I could provide the transcription of a recent virtual seminar. If you'd like, you can download and read the Booklet below. Any questions? Just e-mail us!

Download TeleSeminarTranscriptionOct2007.pdf

Where did yesterday go? Have you ever ended a day, wondering how you got there so quickly, or why you didn’t finish all you had hoped to finish?

There are certain things highly effective people do to finish their work. In my experience of watching people work, and then discussing that with them in debriefing sessions, I have found that the people who debrief, study and re-implement workplace and productivity methods get things done with less effort, in less time. That is, in fact, a significant reason we produce our seminars: It gives people time to think about HOW they work, not just what they need to get done.

Thank you Garmin, you make training SO MUCH FUN!

So, with my Garmin 305 and my MotionBased training account, I can keep track of some pretty cool information! Check out this map...each MB represents a place I've trained over the past few months!

My little brother sent me a quote about "measurement" recently. Essentially it demonstrates the power of tracking, writing things done, and being accountable to "myself."

Occasionally, people see me running or cycling with my Garmin 305 "wristwatch" and ask, "What is THAT?" I smile and say, "It's my training partner...it holds me to the line, makes me get out and work out, and gives me the information I need to advance. Wouldn't you want one of those???"

Here's a picture of a recent run I took in Lake Tahoe...