Time Management Tips: Time-Management No-Brainers
By Dave de Sousa

Where did the day go -- or the week or the month or the year, for that matter? Contrary to popular belief, time can fly when you are stressed, burning the candle at both ends, overworked and not having any fun at all. Time is your most important asset, because it is the only one you can’t reorder or renew.

If just reading the above paragraph brought a wave of procrastination crashing down on you and your messy workspace, don’t despair: A new breed of experts says if you can’t schedule your time down to the minute, the problem may be all in your head.

The left-brain vs. right-brain prizefight, fought in science, education and psychology, has now entered the arena of business. In one corner are the left-brained: logical, linear thinkers who delight in a well-ordered filing system and stick to agendas. Often, these are the people who teach time management. In the other corner are the seemingly inefficient right-brained: creative, nonlinear types who leap from project to project, dig out important files from beneath a paper mountain and push deadlines so fiercely they know the copy shop’s closing time by heart.

For proper attitudinal health, McGee-Cooper prescribes a regimen of trusting your instincts, pushing deadlines and recruiting left-brainers to handle the details and provide proper business balance. The best part: It’s OK if your desk looks like the recycling bin exploded. “If you can find most things in three minutes or less, your system is working,” McGee-Cooper says. “Being a clutterer doesn’t mean you’re a hopeless slob--It means your memory is visual, spatial, kinesthetic. Linear people have an abstract memory, so they remember where things are filed. [Nonlinear people] remember things by seeing them.”

Whether you draw on the creative right brain or the logical left, when put in perspective, that old joke “A messy desk is the sign of a creative mind” may be true after all. For a time-management strategy that fits your personality, consider tidying up your viewpoint, rather than that messy desk.

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