Time Management
LATEST STORIES

Creative Inspiration: Manoush Zomorodi
Journalist Manoush Zomorodi shows how exchanging your smartphone for moments of discomfort can boost creativity.

5 Tips to Stay Cool Under Pressure
These simple strategies can help steady your nerves when the heat is on.

A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation
Whether you're at home or the office, whether you have five minutes or 20, you can meditate. Really. Here's a beginner's guide.

5 Ways to Slow Down
These strategies can help us be more present in the here and now.

How to Make the Most of a Long Commute
Our health and happiness can suffer when getting to work takes a big chunk of time and energy. These tips can help you relax and enjoy the trip.

Time Lapse
Editor in chief Jamie Martin on slowing down and enjoying the moment.

What’s the Rush?
Even when there's a lot to do, it's still possible to stop racing through life.

6 Tips to Stop Overscheduling
Too much on your plate? Here’s how to get back on schedule and recapture your sanity.

How to Take Time Off — Guilt-Free
Many of us feel guilty about time away from work — and overwhelmed by the effort it takes to plan, prep, and pay for vacations. These strategies can help.

Life Log: The Bullet Journal Method
This analog system can help you take better aim at your to-do list — and get clear about your priorities.

Early Adapter: Natalie Morales
Longtime Today show anchor Natalie Morales gets honest about embracing change, finding balance, and rising to new challenges.

Be Quick — But Don’t Hurry: Achieve Your Goals with Focus, Effort, and Preparation
A former player on Coach John Wooden’s legendary basketball team offers sage advice on what it takes to succeed, on and off the court.

Designing Your Future Self
You’re the best person to create big changes in your life. But those shifts will happen only if your “future self” is on board.

What Is Behavior Design?: Understanding How Our Environment Shapes Our Behavior
Does your living environment support — or sabotage — your self-improvement efforts?

The Power of Process
To create positive change, don’t obsess over specific goals. Focus instead on problem-solving strategies you can adjust as you go.

How to Build Better Habits
Make the most of your finite willpower.

The Miracle Morning
Insights from Hal Elrod’s best-selling book that can help transform your days — before 8 a.m.

The 4 Steps to Create a Sustainable Fitness Plan
Determined to get into better shape? Use this inquiry-based process to develop a plan that works — and get real results that last.

In Praise of Doing Nothing
Tips for getting more of the special somethings that come when the mind is allowed to idle.

14 Strategies to Help Break Free from Workaholism
For many Americans, the world of work feels a bit like an endless ride — one that's spinning too fast and feeling more than a little out of control. But just how and why did we get strapped into this craziness? Understand the machinery of your own workaholic tendencies and you'll be one step closer to switching gears — and maybe even putting on the brakes.

6 Strategies to Take Back Your Schedule
How to stop overcommitting your time — and start doing what matters most.