No matter who you are, no matter what your station in life, we all get the same 1,440 minutes per day in the same seven days per week. It all works out to 168 hours weekly for the young and old, great and small, rich and poor alike. So how can it be that some of us accomplish great things with that seemingly meager amount of time, while others struggle through the week, with barely enough wiggle room to take a deep breath? Well, as it turns out, the super-productive aren't superhuman—just very careful with our most precious natural resource. It all boils down to effective time management; as I often point out, time management is really self-management. Despite our fondest fantasies, we'll never be able to actually manage time itself, or move a snippet from last week to this week, or … [Read more...]