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At the end of each day, most people have not accomplished everything they needed and wanted to do. They often feel overwhelmed and underproductive. They also feel that each day's circumstances are out of their control, and there is nothing they can do to complete more tasks and have more time. However, there are a few simple time management tools that can gain up to two additional hours each day.

The time management tools that everyone can adopt are simple and easy to implement. At first you will feel that you do not have time to take the steps required, but be persistent and you will have more time and more control. The following steps should help you set a better time management system in place.

First, use positive self-talk and tell yourself, "I am well-organized and focused." Also, visualize yourself being organized and completing each required task. You are doing a mental rehearsal of completing the tasks. This is sometimes called "Fake it until you make it."

Second, imagine that you are teaching someone how to do each task, and you will find that you are more organized. If it helps, you can write out the directions to complete each task as if you were teaching someone to complete the task step-by-step. You will complete each task in a much more orderly way, and it will probably take less time.

Third, think of yourself as a factory that is totally focused on output. Think of each task as output that is must be produced efficiently and effectively. As a factory, you must have self-discipline, and you must be accountable. If you are a factory, you have schedules and deadlines to meet, and you have to explain any failure to meet schedules and deadlines.

Fourth, start improving your work pattern in only one area for 2-3 weeks. Give yourself time to improve one area of your work before you move to the next area that needs improvement. The recommended first area of improvement is getting organized.

There are several, fool-proof ways to become more organized:

o Write down your goals for the next day at the end of the previous day.

o Always work from a list.

o List all the steps that must be accomplished in order to reach each goal.

o Stop doing things that do not lead to your goals.

o Forget about the small, less important tasks and do the most important tasks first.

o Prioritize your goals in categories such as: must complete, try to complete, want to

complete.

o Make your workspace neat at the end of each day by clearing your desk.

o At the end of each day arrange everything you need for your work the next day.

o Handle each piece of paper only once: throw away, file, or take action.

o Put things away when you finish with them.

o Arrange your workspace to eliminate interruptions and distractions.

o Organize your filing system to make things easy to find.

o Organize your personal time by bunching errands and shopping from a list.

o Be punctual and move fast.

o Concentrate on completing one thing at a time and set and keep deadlines.

Fifth, in a crisis, be analytical and ask: "what, when, where, how, why, who?" This will help you focus. Do not be afraid to make mistakes, because mistakes are part of the learning process. Do not let yourself procrastinate and develop sense of urgency for each task you must complete.

Finally, start each day with the most unpleasant task and complete it first. You will feel a real sense of accomplishment after you have completed the most unpleasant task, and every other task will feel easier. All of your time management steps must be constantly practiced and repeated, because it takes 21 days to create new habit.

Jo Ann Joy, Esq., MBA, CEO

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Planning Your Day: Time Management for Success

Sometimes you feel like you are ready to overcome everything, you can manage any strain and solve the most difficult problems. But this state continues for a very short period of time. After a while you get short of breath and feel exhausted, ready to drop from fatigue. This happens not because you don't cope with everything you are given, but because you aren't able to plan your day efficiently. All the trouble comes from you not being disorganized, though you are full of good intentions to change yourself. Without doubt, it is very difficult to get used to a stable system when your life before was not properly organized and was a total mess of events and things. Let's start from defining top priority. What do you consider the most important thing to do during the day? When you pick a one, put it on your schedule in the most convenient way for you and see how effective is the time you've schedule it on. The key is to choose the most effective and suitable timing for everything, not to mix it up and create a mess we want to get rid of.

Once the core of your schedule is established, you put other events around it. You still have to assess your possibilities and the result effectively. If you, for example, put washing at 2p.m. and your date at 3p.m. it somehow creates misbalance, you'll obviously be running out of time so you'll have to think like a chessman, three-four moves forward. You can watch TV and write your college admission essay at the same time, you can read a book and listen to the music, you can go for a walk and than apologize for not washing the dishes for the hundredth time. If you are not Julius Caesar, you are to change your lifestyle a bit. When you see that your deadline on your custom term paper is past due, you begin to worry. Now that's a signal to refocus. To schedule your day properly, you need to plan it the way, you get enough rest and don't exhaust yourself to death. A normal grown up requires a 6-hour sleep, so be careful to apply this rule to your schedule for you to stay healthy and fit.

If to get a closer look at one's daily routine, we can see that there are a lot of unnecessary things that he/she does. Wasting time is a great expense that one can't afford. There are only twenty four hours in a day and you are not to waist them. Look over the whole system and decide what can be dropped and what is more important for you. For example, if you have the habit to reread the books you've once read, you'd better start forgetting about it and using the time to do something useful, like reading new ones. A planned day makes people organized and self-motivated. If their day is carefully planned, so is every aspect of their lives. But if the system requires instant change due to some extreme circumstances, we have to accept them and make our schedule wider to put something in or to shorten it by dropping something out. According to the results of the investigation, people who had their days practically packed with events were more successful at work and in private than those, who had plenty of free time. The advice is not to rush like mad everywhere but know what is a good time to relax and have fun and what is a good time to work.

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How do you change the background image depending on the time of day?

I want to change the background image from a day picture which will be shown when the user is in day time then a night time picture when the user viewing the page at night time.

When the page loads, run a script to check the time, and set your background pic based on that...you'd need a logic similar to this in Javascript:

now = new Date
if (now.getHours() > 8 && now.getHours < 18) {
document.body.background = "daytime.jpg";
}
else {
document.body.background = "nighttime.jpg";
}

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