Silver Clipboard: Time Management Tips and Personal Productivity Tools

The advice for the last day in the 30 Days to a More Organized Life series is the most important: you must give yourself permission to start over.
Living a more organized life is a worthwhile goal. But, like any worthwhile goal, it is not easy to achieve. Becoming a more organized person is [...]

It’s the end of the day: tired from work and dinner and the kids your brain is not functioning at its most optimal. Under these conditions it’s too easy to make poor decisions about what to do (or not do) with the rest of the night. It’s time for a special checklist to [...]

How many times have you spoken to a friend on the phone and promised to do something for them (like get the title of a book or movie) only to forget after the call is over? Too many times.
Keeping a simple call log can save you time, money and frustration while improving other peoples’ [...]

You know who’s really organized? Monks. Why? Because they have nothing to organize.
The fastest way to a perfectly organized life is to have nothing at all. You don’t need to be that extreme, but you can learn from the idea: the less stuff you have, the less difficulty you’ll have keeping [...]

A key to getting more work done is batch processing – grouping similar tasks together and doing them all at once. Just as having lists for ‘errands’ or ‘home’ makes it easier to do those tasks in groups, you can achieve the same thing for the physical objects in your life using boxes.
What kind [...]