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Picking a style of time management depends on the situation. I like time-boxing and being rather rigid with time for tasks that are routine and may not need much creativity. For open-ended problems that need creativity and chunks of thinking time, I prefer the opposite approach of approaching the problem multiple times and not bothering about being efficient or decisive. I like chess and you will notice chess players oscillate between these two time management styles during games. If you pay attention to how great players manage the clock, you will notice they intuitively spend more time when they are trying to change the nature of the game but they will not spend too much time on routine captures and known moves.

Nice contradicting articles by Oliver Burkeman on Why time management Alex Vermeer article on 8,760 Hours: How to get the most out of next year.I tend to like the article "Why time management" more than the other one as i relate more to it. I am not a great fan of Inbox Zero. I used to manage my mails based on priority and sometimes used to think about some important mails before taking action. Nice examples with different stories. One of the sneakier pitfalls of an efficiency-based attitude to time is that we start to feel pressured to use our leisure time "productively", too an attitude which implies that enjoying leisure for its own sake, which you might have assumed was the whole point of leisure, is somehow not quite enough. I believe in principle that we need to enjoy doing the task rather than thinking that we will enjoy when it's completed.Liked these references "We go walking or running to improve our health, not for the pleasure of movement; we approach the tasks of parenthood with a fixation on the successful future adults we hope to create". "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell".Priortize work in some order, spend free time with family and add left over to tommorows list.

I liked the way the author Alex Vermeer explained everything in a formal way. This guide is a planning for next 8760 hrs of our life, how you prioritize what is important to your life and break down the big picture to get present year and day to day actions. For this we need specific goals and a concrete plan. He thinks the whole process is analytical and systematic and you can make it simple by using tools like Pen, Paper, Time, Mind maps. Complete understanding of your present reality, and coming up with a long term and major goals and working on those goals is a way to success. On the other hand we have a article by Oliver who has a opinion that thinking about time encourages clock watching, which will undermine the quality of work. Many examples are given in this article like Inbox zero, sliding number puzzles. I personally feel that instead of Time Management it is always good if we focus on Task Management. Instead of focusing on the amount of time you have in a single day it is good to focus on the number of tasks you need to finish in a day. You need to schedule your tasks based on the priority and allocate time to complete the tasks. It is up to us to follow any approach to maximize the productivity. First identify what you want and prioritize the task. Time management is also important, following it with a proper goal and implementing it in our day to day activities. Writing a to do list is just not sufficient. We need to estimate how much time each task is going to take and left over tasks can be added to tomorrows list. I feel that without pressure, you'll be more efficient and this efficiency will definitely show in your work.

I find the concept of "Inbox Zero" very interesting. I agree with the hypothesis that replying to every email is eventually going to elicit reply. It is going to keep you busy, you are going to spend time replying to the emails that otherwise you could have spent on your work. I believe Parkinson's law comes into effect when you set time for tasks,this task you are trying to complete in a particular time expands so that you end up spending whole of the proposed time even though the task could have been completed in a lesser time. I partially agree to the 8760 hours article. It definitely helps to have a retro of the previous year. Setting targets for an year at the beginning again restricts you to those targets again(Parkinson's law in effect here).

The two opposite scenario of the time management is given very nicely here in two article. In the article "Why time management is ruining our lives", tricks has given how to complete the tasks. The way how Ivy Lee has suggested to the President of Bethalham Steels for the task management is good. We can make a list of to do at every night for the next day, then we can arrange that according to priority and should complete each and every task according to priority.I partially agree with the management of each and every hour, because sometimes rather than time management, we need to manage the situation. As every day is a black day for us we cannot predict what will happen to the next situation.

I liked the way how the author Alex Vermeer explained about time management .I think managing the time is all about managing the life. If there is no time management, then we have a lot of chaos in our lives.We human beings need specific goals and a concrete plan for obtaining them that is optimized for success.In 8760 hours:how to get most out of next year,author has suggested 12 life areas we have to take care.The author has also suggested some good brainstorming questions for each life areas.I can relate time management to my life,during my engineering days without any time management ,I found it difficult to juggle between the grades and the extracurricular activities.So to keep things running smoothly we should have time management at least on a daily basis,I personally prefer pen and paper as a tool for managing my day. Moreover we cannot plan for the entire year at once.I partially agree with the article "Why time management is ruining our lives" because it may cause stress and anxiety.

The author has a complete different view on time management. The more we manage our time efficiently the more we get stressed with a lot of things to do.Man who is the star of personal productivity came up with a concept Inbox Zero to effective manage our mailbox which will take away the stress of managing our emails. However, the response from the public was this didn't work for them and rather this put more pressure on them to be on top of their mailbox.My question is that "Is it possible to maintain "Minds like water" while managing a lot of tasks and priorities at hand with increased personal productivity? My personal opinion is that yes it is possible byUnderstanding our priorities, Getting things done by the right people through delegating tasks, Building the resilience to handle pressured situations at ease, Ensuring we are mentally and physically fit andEfficently handling our daily tasks.

Why time management is ruining our lives - It' an ok article, too many references that didn't interest me that much.I like the Inbox Zero concept. I used to face this heavily in my career, all communications were through emails, decision making and taking, spent a lot of time reviewing, responding to many mails.It is possible for a person to have an overwhelming number of things to do and still function productively with a clear head and a positive sense of relaxed control,ΓÇ¥ the contemporary king of the productivity gurus, David Allen - I like this quote but there is no positive sense of relaxed control. There is a mention of 4 day work week, more relaxing hours which is debatable.8760hs article is a good one. I do the same things but not all 12. I wouldn't use tools, just pen paper or mind. My style fits into this one.