"Get More Done ... Increase Productivity ... Make More Money. It’s Simple Really!" "Control the time  in your life so you can get on with having the time of your life" Time management is an impossible dream. Nothing you or I can do will ever change the rate at which time flows past us. Each second, minute and hour is the same for each and every one of us: 86,400 fixed-length seconds in every single day. Regular as clockwork.

Why is it then that some people manage to achieve so much with the time allotted to them, while others can only watch in amazement?
I’m Martin Avis and I’m a procrastinator

There. I’ve said it. All my life I’ve been a procrastinator. You may be one too - there are an awful lot of us about! It has always been easy for me to sit idly by and wonder how other people manage to get so much done.

Easy, but by no means satisfying. In fact, I’m sure you’ll agree that watching others succeed can get mightily frustrating. But, for procrastinators like us, doing something about it is the problem.
The Secret of High Achievers

In the end I came to realize that my super-achieving, get-things-done friends had the same amount of time in their days as I did. Their secret is that they control that time differently.

I started reading everything I could find about time management and observing people who seemed to have ’cracked it’. A lot of what I read in books seemed too complex. When you are as fundamentally lazy as I am, the last thing you need is to be faced with a fifty page chapter on the benefits of goal setting, or a whole book on making to-do lists.

Fast Time Management Solutions

What I needed, and I suspect what you need too, were fast solutions that I could use quickly and get instant results from.

And I needed lots of different time management strategies so I could pick the ones that worked with my personality.

The answers were out there, but more often than not hidden in dry boring books that waffled on and on for thousands of words before getting to the point.

Over the years I’ve found effective time management strategies that work for me. I’m still, at heart, a time wasting procrastinator, but I’m now one who is in control. I’ve learned to manage myself in order to control the way I use my time.

Without wishing to brag, I now manage to get more done than most people - I’ve written six books, publish a newsletter three times each week (over 800 issues so far), write articles and reports, own and run more websites that I can even remember - and run a successful offline consultancy business. And I do all that while still goofing off, dithering around and wasting time.

The difference between the achiever I am now and the onlooker I used to be is that when I need to get things done I have simple, effective strategies that keep me on track and focused.

When I started to write about my time management ideas in my newsletter, Kickstart Today, I found that my readers really resonated with them. I got lots of emails from folks thanking me for the tips and strategies. Many of them commented on how refreshing it was to find a strategy that would normally take up an entire book encapsulated into a few short paragraphs that they could use in their lives right away....