Time Management: 24 Techniques to Make Each Minute Count at Work

Trust your memory

Write things down

Where does all your time go? Number three of the six greatest time wasters in business is forgetting things.

Here’s the simplest recommendation for saving time: If it’s important to remember, write it down. Make life easier for your mind: Use it more for thinking and less for remembering things that you could easily write down and that you risk forgetting if you don’t.

We are surrounded by information—facts, numbers, names. Most people are constantly juggling a lot of mental odds and ends. It often happens that ...