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Open Door Policy – The Fastest Way To Get Nothing Done
Ever get to the end of a day and not actually achieved much? It's not the best feeling in the world, is it? Having worked hard for 6, 8, 10 hours or more and not have much to show for it. Chances are your plans were derailed by all the other 'stuff' around us. And...
TimeChunking – How To Free Up The Time You Need
How often do you not have the Time to do more of the important things? We all have this list, don’t we? The things that we know to be more important than what we are generally doing. Yet we’re always busy doing other stuff. That somehow seems to consume all our Time....
About Andy M Edwards
The Time & Productivity Coach and Founder of TimeSmart
How do you go from working about 80 hours a week down to about 40 hours a week, and have the two most successful years of a 20-year career?
Well, I did just that only a few years ago.
During the final two years of my employed life, I took my business area, currently lying 48th out of 51 after yet another re-structure to 2nd in the country by the Time I left, all whilst working fewer hours than I had done in the previous 18 years.
I’d achieved this through hard work and long hours, believing that was just how it was. One of the most irritating phrases I used to hear was “work smarter, not harder”, and I remember thinking if it was that simple we’d all be doing it wouldn’t we!