Time Management - Marc Mancini
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<strong>Time</strong> <strong>Management</strong><br />
A young physicist asked Albert Einstein for his phone<br />
number. Einstein picked up his university’s phone directory,<br />
located his number, transferred it to a slip of paper,<br />
and then handed it to the scientist.<br />
Bemused, the young man blurted out, “Mr. Einstein, you<br />
don’t know your own phone number?”<br />
To which the great thinker replied, “Why should I clutter<br />
my mind with something that I can so easily look up?”<br />
Most people are constantly juggling all manner of mental<br />
odds and ends. You know you must buy three things at the<br />
store on the way home, but you get there and can recall only<br />
two. You have a nagging feeling that you’re supposed to return<br />
a certain call, then you remember it, too late, the next day.<br />
50% of all you hear or read you’ll forget within one minute. If<br />
you can’t easily re-access the information you need, write it<br />
down—in your organizer, on a full sheet of paper (to file later),<br />
on a checklist, or somewhere else you can access quickly. It<br />
takes much less time to make a written note than to search for<br />
a lost thought.<br />
<strong>Time</strong> Leak #4: Commuting and Air Travel<br />
If only your office were the only place you worked! But “office”<br />
Maximize Your Memory<br />
Some people remember numbers better than names, while<br />
for others names are easier than numbers. If you really need<br />
to recall something later and have no way to write it down—for<br />
example, the name of someone to whom you’ve just been introduced—it<br />
might work to use a mnemonic device to help trigger your<br />
memory later.<br />
How do you remember, for example, that Frank James isn’t James<br />
Frank? One way would be to remember that F comes before J in the<br />
alphabet.That’s a mnemonic device. Another way would be to remember<br />
that Frank James is a forthright person. He’s French (Frank). Or<br />
that he’s not a hotdog named James—“James frank.” Yes, it’s silly—but<br />
if it works for you, that’s what matters.