My Books
- The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment: How to Achieve More Success With Less Stress: My first book is a comprehensive look on what it takes to achieve lasting time management change. It’s available in print, digital, and audio form.
- How to Invest Your Time Like Money: My second book takes a deep-dive look at how to allocate your time most effectively, including macro-level life decisions as well as weekly and daily planning. It’s available in digital form.
- Divine Time Management: The Joy of Trusting God’s Loving Plans for You: My third book looks at a God-centered approach to time management, i.e. how Christians can put trust in God at the center of their time management instead of trust in themselves. It’s available in print, digital, and audio form.
Bonus: Free guide on word-for-word scripts on How to Say, “No,” Nicely
Non-Tech Time Management Tools
Popular Paper Planners:
- Best Self Planner
- Full Focus Planner
- Passion Planner
- Bullet Journal
- High Performance Planner
- Ponderlily
- Project Me
Time Management Technology Tools
Popular To-Do List Apps:
Comparisons of These To-Do List Apps+More:
Weekly Planning Tools:
These tools help you to fuse your to-do items with your calendar.
Habit Tracking Apps:
Other Technology Resources:
- Ximble Employee Scheduling Software
- 36 Productivity Tools That Will Make Your Life Much Easier
- Time Doctor’s Best Time Tracking Apps: 14 Top Tools Reviewed
- Toggl Time Tracking Software Review
- BOOKAFY – Online Appointment Scheduler
- Time Timer – Visual Timer
- Nuvro – Easy Project & Team Management
- Daily PlanIt – Android
- Daily PlanIt – Apple
- Plan Central
- An In-Depth Guide to Standing Desks
- Turn Your Phone Into a Mind-Reading Personal Assistant
- The Future of Online Scheduling
- Time Tracking App from Get Harvest
- Computer Time Tracker that You Can Use for Invoicing from AllNetic
- Five Best Personal Money Management Sites
- Five Best Mobile Note Taking Tools
- Tech Tools to Make It Harder to Get Distracted When You’re Online
- Powerful iPhone Apps (Potential time management helpers-if you focus on the point not the tool)
- Seven Tips for Time Management Software for Writers
- Use This Application for Help With Rescheduling Meetings
- List of the Best Android Apps-including Ones for Productivity
- Tools to Keep your Work Day Organized: Tips from a Business Owner
- Social Media Webinar: The Science of Timing with Dan Zarrella
- How to Automatically Shut Down your Computer at a Certain Time
- LinkedIn: The Best New Place to Look for Job Openings
- Use Multiple Computers to Increase your Productivity
- How to Set Up an Automated Backup System for your Computer
- Make your Computer the Ultimate Remote Access Media Server
- Todoist.com: Digital List and Task Manager
- SleepyTimer: Bedtime and Power Nap Calculator
- Get in Shape Now with the Help of Technology
- Free Online Meeting Tools: FreeScreenSharing.com
- How to Fill in Reptetive Web Forms Only Once
- How to Craft your Perfect Calendar and To-Do List
- Use 6 Kinds of Calendar Views to be More Productive
- Set a Timer and Dash through your Tasks!
- How and Why to Set Up Your To-Do List in Plain Text
- Keep Track of Your Social Media Life
- Scrivener: A Tool to Help you Track Complex Writing Projects
- MindMaple: Quickly Creates Fresh Looking Mind Maps Just for You
- Video How-To: Make a Custom Stamp to Quickly Sign Documents
- Consolidate Notifications and Alerts with One System
- An Automated Home Folder to Ditch Hard Drive Clutter
- Public Goal-Setting: A Tech Tool to Hold You Accountable
- The Secret Weapon: Personal Productivity System
- Plan your Business Travels with TripIt
- Producteev: A Task Management App for Teams and Individuals
- Experimenting with your Sleep and Dreams: There’s an App for That!
- The Best Windows Apps to Organize Your Life
- Feeling Slow?: 10 Ways to Speed Up your Tech Tools
- Hack your Life in One Day: A Beginners Guide to Productivity
- Allstate: Automated Home and Vehicle Maitenance Reminder
- Any.DO: Organization and Reminder App
- Any.DO: A Reminder App to Make Things Happen
- David Allen Video: How Important Tech Tools are for GTD
- Call Reminder Pro on Google Drive
- Accountability with stickK.com
- Less Meeting
- OmniContext
- Mealime
Brilliant Life Balance-Time Management Links
- From Overwhelmed to Organized: 7 Steps for Taking Control of Your Life
- Why We Sleep
- The Surprising Health Benefits of Napping
- Sleep Cycles Explained: The Five Stages of Sleep
- 10 Reasons Why Good Sleep is Important for Your Health
- Positive Health Wellness
- Top 5 Productivity Mistakes
- Motivate Yourself Into an Exercise Routine You Will Actually Stick To
- The Importance of Auditing your Work Habits
- Ask the Coach: Elizabeth’s Answers to Your Work-At-Home Time Management Questions
- Elance: Eliminate Deadline Stress: Here’s How
- Lifehacker: Lock in a Fixed Schedule to Keep Work-Life Balance
- Time Management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3 books, a PhD defense, and 6+ peer-reviewed papers –and finishes by 5:30 p.m.
- More Sneaky Tips for balancing Work/Life from Entrepreneurs and Executives
- Dealing with Distractions as a Web Worker
- Video: Beat Procrastination With These Tips
- Practicing Success Habits
- Time Management for Students
- Achieve Focus in a World of Distractions
- Five Reasons Your Time Management is Failing
- 10 Tips for Time Management in Your Home Business
- Struggling With Work Life Balance? Think of it as Work Life Compartments
- Use a Daily Log to Keep Yourself Productive
- Using Procedure Checklists for Task Execution
- 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day
- Tame Your To Do List
- How to Always get to the Airport on Time
- Work Less, Earn More, and Dominate: Just Apply the “80/20 Rule”
- Save time in the Kitchen
- Eat your way to a High Energy Work Day
- Tips to Happily Overcome the Winter Blah’s
- More Sleep, Less Stress can help Battle the Common Cold
- Tips to Find More Time to Start Exercising Now!
- Digital Overload: the Toll of Too Much Technology
- You Don’t Have to Do It All by Yourself: Helpful Resources for DIY Projects
- Why the New Work World Requires Proactive Planning
- Tips for a More Relaxing, Less Stressful Holiday Season
- Stop Interruptions and be More Productive
- How to Improve Your Financial Willpower
- Eliminate “Fake” Work and Focus on Projects that Really Matter
- Wake Up without Caffeine
- Stop Being and Interruption Magnet and Work More Productively
- The Power of Paper: How not going Digital can be more Productive
- 10 Things you can get for Free, or on the Cheap: From Speeding Tickets to Digital Storage
- Do It Yourself: From Tangle-Free Earbuds to an Apartment Makeover
- How Working Crazy, Long Hours could Literally Kill You
- 22 Minute House Cleaning!
- Reduce Stress Before it Happens
- The Best of Lifehacker Book: Work Smarter, Better, Faster
- The Best Credit Cards and Rewards for your Amazon Purchases
- 6 Ways to Stay Productive and Engaged while Working from Home
- How to Create an In-Case-of-Emergency Document for your Loved Ones
- Become a Kitchen Pro, Improve Efficiency
- Create a Work at Home Toolkit to Increase Productivity
- A Great App for Guided Breathing Exercises
- Don’t Break the Chain: Jerry Seinfeld’s Cool Productivity Secret
- Removing the Stress from Weekly Chores
- Stop Stress in 60 Seconds or Less!
- How to Stop Working Late and Go Home
- 10 Ways to Improve your Credit Score
- Dealing with Interruptions: A David Allen Video
- 21 Ways to Relax and Recharge in Just One Day
- Learn How to Reclaim your Time, Reduce Stress in One Week
- Put your Home Maintenance on Auto-Pilot: Save Time & Money
- Write your Papers, Save Time: A Tool for Citation Help
- How to Energize you Career: You can Continue to Grow and Improve
- A Master Plan with Small Steps to Take Control of Your Life
- Get a Personalized Financial Plan Without Spending a Fortune
- What it Takes to Get a Job with a Small Business
- How to Fit a Workout into your Busy Day- You really can!
- Change your Silly Shopping Habits
- How to Adapt to New or Expanding Job Responsibilities
- 5 Step Guide to Easier Holiday Shopping
- 10 Tips for Overcoming Air Travel Stress
- What you Need to Know about Workplace Productivity
- Stellar Speaking, Presentations, & Tackling your Nerves
- No Sleep and other Uncessary Extremes Do Not Equal Success
- Layering: Multitasking that Actually Works
- 10 Exercise Myths Debunked
- 21 Fun Break Ideas to Improve your Productivity at Work
- How to Reboot Your Sleep Cycle Tonight
- Turn Your To-Do List into a Fun Story: Procrastination Solved!
- Stress Free Weekly Meal Planning
- The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time
- 11 Bloggers to Follow for Productivity and Lifestyle Tips
- Refresh!: Make the Most of your Weekends
- Why You Don’t Have to Become a Workaholic to Excel in Your Job
- Virtual Meetings: How to Actually Get Things Done
- 10 Part Strategy for Boosting Daily Productivity
- 3 Tips to Never Forget Your Client Appointments While Travelling
- 6 Proven Ways to Be Move Productive (Consistently)
- How to Conquer Your To-Do List
Time Management And Psychology
- Picture a Conversation – Prompts for Meaningful Conversations
- Student’s Guide to Dealing with College Stress
- Habits: How to Make New Behaviors Last for Good
- Why You’re Always Late
- The Power of Concentration
- 7 Productivity Myths Debunked
- A Meditation for Resolving Inner Conflict
- Recalibrate Your Thinking to Excel at Work without becoming a Crazed Workaholic
- Conquer Big Projects By Using Past, Present, and Future Focus
- How Multi-Tasking Effects the Brain: The Good and the Bad
- Fake it to Make: The Benefits of Being an Imposter
- Drastically Reduce Stress With a Work Shutdown Ritual
- Entrepreneurs Rank High On Well Being
- Adopt Habits that Stick: Once a Month Techniques
- Focus: Zen Inspired Techniques to make it through the Work Day
- Overcome “List Anxiety”
- Don’t Be Discouraged! Effortless Organization may take Time
- Easy Tips to get you Creative Juices Flowing
- Problem Solve in 3 Manageable Steps
- Sleep Easy: Tips to Cure Insomnia, Snoring, and More
- Understand Self-Control and Boost your Willpower
- Social Media Requests: Are you Overwhelmed?
- 10 Wonderful Ways to Upgrade your Daily Routine
- 5 Tips for Daily Decision-Making
- Prevent and Manage Stress- and Improve your Genes!
- When Bad Things Happen to Productive People: Tips to Help and Power Through
- Choose How to Spend your Time, and Save Time in the Long Run
- How to Make Decisions to Avoid Overwhelm
- 3 Secrets of Simplicity
- How to Research with a Closed Loop Research System
- The Fine Art of Limiting yourself to the Essentials in Life
- Step-by-step Guide to Fixing Bad Habits and Creating Good Ones
- How to Use Small Blocks of Time to Accomplish Big Goals
- How to Avoid Dreaded Decision Fatigue
- How to Stop these Productivity Sabotaging Behaviors
- Setting the Stage for a Creative and Productive Day
- Overcome your Worst Fears Now
- Tips from the Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers
- How to Stay Strong while Under Stress
- GTD and Giving Yourself Time and Space Before Making a Decision
- How to Accomplish More by Doing Less- Yes, it’s really true!
- Set Weekly Appointments for ‘Thinking Time’
- Make the Most of Small Blocks of Time- Surprising Beneftis!
- Don’t Insult your Intelligence: Ask for Help and Face your Challenges
- Subconscious Problem Solving: Work a Little at a Time
- Savor Criticism, Shun Cynicism, and Sharpen your Gut Instinct
- Why “No” is the New “Yes”: 4 Ways to Reprioritize your Life
- Knowing When You’re Wrong and What to Do About It
- The Value of Goals: Think Big to Change your Perspective
- The Importance of Trusting your First Response
- Not Having Time Vs. Not being a Priority
- 5 Types of Work that Fill Your Day
- Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Unproductive
- How Being Happier Increases Success- not the other way around!
- Creating the Right Habits and Practicing Small Wins: Inspiration from Michael Phelps
- How to Do Self-Review and Identify your Professional Pain Points (Before Your Boss Does!)
- Happiness Is A Choice
- Act Accordingly
- Learning from a Superhuman: The Incredible Life and Fitness of Jack LaLanne
- 8 Things To Do Every Day That Will Make You Happier
- Daily Routines: How writers, artists and other interesting people organize their days
Time Management And Relationships
- How To Explain Your Schedule to Your Kids
- 10 Ways to Simplify Life as a Mom
- Quality Time with your Kids: 5 ways to make it happen and make it count
- Build Better Client Relationships On-line
- 7 Ways Even Smart Businesses Lose Clients: Don’t Let it Happen to You!
- Networking: Create Better Relationships in Even Less Time
- Perfectionist Parents and their Always Lacking Kids
- How to Break Through Bureaucracy to Keep Projects Moving Forward
- How Managers Detect and can Divert Boredom
- How to Prevent Employees’ Summer Burnout
- 9 Tips for Hiring a Virtual Assistant
- How to Make a Positive Lasting Impression Every Time
- Leadership Lessons from the Shackleton Expedition
- Working Well with Brilliant, but Disorganized, People
- 11 Tips for Building and Managing a Team
- The Power of Introverts: Quiet Brilliance
- Quiet Time: Power and Simple Joy
- 3 Networking Tips for Introverts
- Self-Promote (Without Being Sleazy)
- How to Protect your Team from Nightmares
- How to Get Anything You Want with Minimal Negotiation
- Feeling Resentful? 6 Hard Facts About Shared Work
- How to Choose Your Battles and Fight for What Actually Matters
- On Being the Fun Parent
- 10 Small Ways to Combat Big Employee Conflicts
- The Truth About Networking
- 6 Tips for Networking into a Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Firm
Time Management and Your E-Mail Inbox
- Email Marketing Webinar
- Is a False Sense of Email Urgency Harming your Business?
- AwayFind App: Alerts You to Only Truly Urgent Emails
- Quick, Easy Ways to Backup your Gmail Account
- A Guide to Easy Email Triage: Don’t Despair!
- The 3 Best Folders for an Organized Inbox
- 500 Character Limit: Twitter for Email
- Quitting Email: One Man’s, One Month Experiment
- Make the Most of the New Gmail: Shortcuts, Add-ons, and Tips
- Overcoming Your Email Addiction: A Quick Video
- Use a Flowchart to Change a Bad Habit
- Why Inbox 0 Is a Joke (and How to Deal)
- Use Phone Tag so You Never Miss a Voicemail Again
