Comments on: Time Budget: An Easy Way to Avoid Prioritization Dilemmas and Keep Your Life Balanced

By: 6 Productivity Principles to Live By (My Personal Productivity Manifesto)

6 Productivity Principles to Live By (My Personal Productivity Manifesto) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:49:24 +0000

[...] a time budget. In a time budget you define shares of time for the areas or goals you care about. It’s just [...]

By: Chaos Management « paper(less) trail

Chaos Management « paper(less) trail — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:50:18 +0000

[...] flexible enough for me to get things done in-between meetings and helping people. What I found was time budgeting and time blocking. I believe these two techniques, used in tandem, to be the solution to my [...]

By: Luciano Passuello

Luciano Passuello — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:22:50 +0000

Alan: Thanks for the recommendation. However, I had already tried Life Balance in the past, and despite its great balancing features, I end up choosing MyLife Organized. This is the tool I do all my low-level task managing and planning and it is absolutely great. It’s similar to Life Balance in many ways, but has many great features and the developer is a very responsive to user demands. (I will probably write an entire article about it someday). Be sure to try it out!

Alan, also thank you for reminding us about the many facets of productivity. I keep forgetting about them, too!

Julian: You’re right about the importance of discipline. One interesting thing I noticed, though, is that following a time budget brings a unique awareness about how you spend your time. This awareness, alone, is enough to boost your motivation towards your goals and make the ‘discipline part’ much easier.

By: Alan Baljeu

Alan Baljeu — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:36:27 +0000

Not so, Fier. Space management, emotional balance, and working effectively also influence productivity, but are separate from “time managing”.

By: Fier

Fier — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:32:05 +0000

All in all, everything in productivity is about correct time managing. Isn’t it?

By: Kelley Ann Hornyak

Kelley Ann Hornyak — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:35:42 +0000

Great article. I’m about to check out time boxing, Klok, and RescueTime. I can never seem to balance all the areas of my life, and just when I think I’ve got them all on the table in front of me, one slides off and I’m left picking up the pieces again. There’s my business, my creative endeavors which I hope to turn into a career, my relationship, my home, pets, fun time (when is that exactly again??)… There are just so many areas and there’s always one that I’m neglecting or forgetting about completely. You’ve opened my eyes to the fact that there are solutions out there if I’m just willing to implement them and stick to them. Again–great post.

By: Organize IT Recap: Lose Weight, Time Budgets - Practical advice on personal development, productivity and GTD

Fri, 02 May 2008 08:44:19 +0000

[...] are all familiar with financial budgets, but what about time budgets? Litemind has a good writeup describing how you can implement one. This approach gives you an objective way [...]

By: Pinky

Pinky — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:38:00 +0000

I really appreciate the pointers to different productivity tools. Time management and productivity are plaguing me right now and the tools I’ve employed for years are not working for me. It’s great to encounter other folks’ thinking, as well as tools they find useful. One thing I’ve learned about time management through the years is that different things work for different people. Viva la difference and thanks for sharing!

By: Julian

Julian — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:19:08 +0000

Interesting article, the hard part is discipling yourself to actually follow your plan.

By: Alan Baljeu

Alan Baljeu — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:10:05 +0000

The most awesome tool to keep your life balanced is Life Balance. Produced by a family at their llama farm (seriously! Their site is http://www.llamagraphics.com), this simple program has been in development for years. Basically the software does time budgeting and neglect-based prioritizing for you!

You enter all the things you need to do, categorize them, and then decide what percentage of time you want to spend in each category. The software automatically organizes your tasks according to what tasks are more urgent, or more neglected, and encourages you to balance your tasks in your different life areas.