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I feel like we could all use a good laugh to get us through to the weekend, so I found some good time management cartoons. This one is my favorite:

I think this is a problem we would all love to have, but it does bring up a very important topic in time management, which is time management for internet resources. It is very easy to get sucked into blogging, commenting on blogs, and social networks for hours, and while these can be useful activities they can also completely cripple your ability to do your other work. One thing I see a lot of people doing is throughout their day spending short amounts of time on blogs and social networks. While this doesn’t seem like a big deal if you add it up and can amount to a couple hours, and every time we stop what we are doing we break concentration and takes more time for us to get going again.

One solution to this is to schedule in blocks of time for blogs and social media. Try setting aside a one or two hour window at some point during your day to take care of the blog and social media tasks you need to accomplish. What I found when I did this is that it both limited the amount of time I was spending on these almost never ending tasks, and allowed me to accomplish my other work more efficiently because I wasn’t being distracted by social media and blogs pulling me away from my work.