Part of good time management is setting goals for yourself. But your goals need to be S.M.A.R.T. What does that mean? Well, let’s look a little closer. S.M.A.R.T stands for:
Specific: Detail “exactly” what you want to achieve. You have to be specific when setting your goals. The clearer you are the better direction you will have in how to get there.
When you say “I want to raise money for diabetes” is that specific? Some would say yes but the answer is no. Yes, you want to raise money for diabetes but is that it? Again, the answer is no. Clarify, be specific! Being specific would be: “I want to raise $5000 dollars to support diabetes research by December 31st”. Can you see the difference? The first goal was not clear about exactly what you wanted to do whereas the second example specifically lists what you want to do. It becomes a goal you can actually work towards with clearly defined steps.
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For CF9 -Centaur, we’ve put together an unofficial, fan shirt as a fun project.
http://www.centaurshirt.com
We think they’re pretty cool. Hope you do too.
“I’ll do it later.”
“It’s not due until tomorrow.”
“It would have been done on time but other things came up.”
“I can’t find anything.”
If you have ever said any of those things or even something similar, then you could benefit from better time management. Learning to use your time wisely will go a long way. You can have more time for work, for family and for yourself -if you plan it. Planning is essential to time management. Plan your day, your week; even your month or year.
Here are some easy steps you can take to start planning your time.
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Do you know that your stress levels are greatly affected by how you manage your time? The way you manage your time can influence the type of day that you will have.
Poor Time Management = Stress
It is estimated that most people waste at least 2 hours a day. Now that doesn’t sound like a lot when you’re considering a 24 hour time frame but you can get a lot accomplished within 2 hours. Some signs of poor time management skills are:
- Messy office. This can include a cluttered desk. You know …files everywhere!
- You can’t seem to find anything. You know it’s in there somewhere but the question is…where?
- You miss appointments. This is embarrassing enough but then you have to turn around and reschedule them.
- You are late for meetings or you arrive unprepared.
- You can’t seem to focus or concentrate on what needs to be done.
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You can now export Basecamp projects to PDF with a free trial of ExportReports.com version 1.0.
We’ve officially launched version 1.0 of the popular Basecamp add-on.
New features include:
- Project list sorted by company;
- Information about any attached files in Basecamp if a comment has attached files and;
- Customizeable page size to accomodate European Basecamp users, other non-US sizes and attornies using Basecamp;
- These are US Letter, US Legal, A4, A5, B4 and B5.
And in honor of the official launch we are offering your first PDF report for free.
Your first export of a Basecamp project is now free with ExportReports.com!
All of these features came from feedback from our Basecamp users. Please let us know what you’d like to see by adding a comment here.
Ben Forta, the uber-guru of Adobe’s ColdFusion product and author of numerous how-to computer programming books is giving away copies of his books to schools, educational institutions and students. First come first serve basis.
The topics include: ColdFusion, SQL, MySQL, SQL Server, CF/Flash and CF/J2EE.
You can read more about his offer and get his email address to request at book at his blog.
We use ColdFusion to build and deploy Vertabase project management software.
We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Accomplice task management software and to welcome the over 30,000 registered users to the Vertabase community.
Accomplice has been called the “Nirvana of Organization” and reaching “Holy Grail Status” of task management.
Here’s a link to the press release on the acquisition and there’s a ton of information on the product on the Accomplice site.
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Question: As an IT Consultant with people already working as many hours as they can, how can I make more money without adding overhead or needing to find new clients?
Answer: The short answer is -bill faster.
Most IT Consulting shops have thousands of dollars of free cash bottled-up in unbilled time. The problem is either:
- Technicians have been on-site, done the work but haven’t reported their time or
- Their time has been entered but it takes a long time for someone to re-key that time in Quickbooks or another accounting package so that it can be billed to the client.
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The Midwest Technology Leaders conference hit a home run this year with the quality of the people it drew. I’m talking about the CIO’s, Directors of IT and most excitingly the IT entrepreneurs, those small business people who have slugged out an IT business in Michigan and have continued to grow.
Frankly, this was a group of people I didn’t know existed in the area (and I’ve been here for 11 years). I saw a slue of these companies come into existence during the .com boom but after the implosion, the landscape seemed dead. Seeing these people all in one room, talking to them -all still hungry, seasoned and focused on growth, created a buzz that I haven’t felt in Michigan in a long time.
I’ve attend conferences and business meetings across the America’s, felt the buzz and creativity in other cities. Attending this event opened the door for a perception change about this region.
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We are happy to announce the release of the Vertabase Timer v. 1.5 to track time on projects and track time on clients. This sleek desktop widget runs on MAC and PC (-its been tested on Leopard and Vista).
New Features include:
1. Addition of a PAUSE button.
2. Making the SHOW TIME time usage report editable.
3. Export to CSV for use in applications like MS Excel and Google Spreadsheets.
4. Export to XML with meaningful node names.
5. Easier autosuggest.
To make this all possible, the Vertabase Timer was entirely rebuilt in Flex.
Join the more than 3,000 people who have already downloaded the Vertabase Timer. You can download the latest version of the time tracking application for free at the Vertabase Timer homepage.
The application runs on Adobe’s AIR.
By the way, all these features came from feedback from our Community. Join now and be heard!
Tell us what you’d like to see in Vertabase Timer to make it easier and more useful for you.
