Recently, Borders was running a special where they were giving a 25% discount to “educators”. I’m not (technically) faculty, but I provide support for and work closely with them (showing the clerk my business card — with the College logo on it — was good enough for him). I stopped in, browsed around, and ended up flipping through a copy of “Time Management for System Administrators“. I went ahead and bought it; it’s been a pretty good read so far.
I’m not going to focus on the book so much, but there are (what seem to be) some very good ideas and concepts presented within. One of the key things it talks about is your “organizer”, whether that’s a PDA, a pad of paper, or a leather-bound daily planner. Then, today, I somehow stumbled across “DIY Planner“, which has templates that you can print out and use in lieu of purchasing your own commercially-made planner.
I don’t think I’ll be giving up my Blackberry anytime soon, since it goes literally everywhere with me (I’ve been known to answer it in the shower), but I’m sure this will come in handy for numerous others (many people I work with prefer to keep a “dead tree” organizer).
I’ll update you on the book as I make it further through it, but so far it seems that it’s definitely worth the money (especially since $boss told me to turn in my receipt and he’d reimburse me for it!).
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