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Time management

June 2024

  • Three push pins on a month calendar

    Notes and queries
    Readers reply: why does a week have seven days?

  • Woman using smart watch on street

    Pass notes
    Time optimists: why zoomers are much less punctual than boomers

  • The days of the week on a signpost against a blue-sky background

    Notes and queries
    Why does a week have seven days?

  • Young man in bed covering his ears with a pillow

    A guide to ADHD and autism
    The best alarm clocks to make sure you wake up and don’t go back to sleep, if you have ADHD

May 2024

  • ‘I can action that for you going forward, my little summer squash.’

    Pass notes
    Spice up your spreadsheets! Should you run your relationship like a business?

    Could office management software such as Slack and Notion optimise your relationship? A surprising number of people are trying it out

April 2024

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    Time is your most precious commodity. Can you ever get it back?

    Teacher and artist Isabel Manley reflects on how the modern world warped our relationship to time – and how we can begin to rethink it

March 2024

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    Hours of fun: what’s the point of daylight savings?

  • Dissolving orange alarm clock

    I have long wanted to be more relaxed about time – luckily, an external force is helping me overcome my intense punctuality

    Rebecca Shaw

December 2023

  • An illustration of a man slumped in a clock face with a baby on his chest and the numbers on the clock all falling on top of him

    Don't bother: an anti-resolutions special
    The key to keeping new year resolutions? Don’t make them in the first place

    Setting endless goals can lead to a downward spiral. Stop wasting your life resolving to improve yourself and you might just find you enjoy it more

October 2023

  • Illustration showing woman running against various clocks

    Are you a time optimist? Why some people are perennially late – and how to be more punctual

    While timekeepers naturally arrive early, time optimists set off with the assumption the lights will be green and the roads will be empty, getting ever more anxious as the minutes tick away. The good news? Change is possible

April 2023

  • Melting clock<br>digital composite clock

    Clock watching: meet the artist who thinks time is ruining our lives

    ‘Clock time’, all about productivity, money and economic growth, threatens to destroy us, says artist Jenny Odell. But there are other kinds of time, and we need to learn to embrace them

March 2023

  • Detail of a small tree, growing out of moss.

    Saving Time by Jenny Odell review – clocking off

    The artist and writer offers a powerful critique of the way we conceive of time in the modern, industrial world, and explores alternatives

February 2023

  • People running up stairs

    Early people do not think highly of late people like me. Why are they so unforgiving?

    Ashe Davenport
    I masquerade as an ‘on time’ person to keep jobs and pay rent, but it’s not what’s in my heart

October 2022

  • Emma Beddington

    People on TikTok keep boasting about what they do from 5am to 9am. I just lie in bed, if the dog will let me

    Emma Beddington
    I watch people preparing food, working out and doing laundry. But what if I don’t want to ‘maximise my potential’, asks Emma Beddington

July 2022

  • ‘If you don’t plan when your breaks are going to come, then any moment is potentially a time you could take a break.’

    Overworked and burnt out? How to claw back time in your day

    Chances are, no matter where you work, you’re not using your calendar effectively. Here’s how to ‘play offence’ with your time, from scheduling breaks to using a template

January 2022

  • A new year clock decoration in Lebanon, Beirut

    Today in Focus
    The joy of missing out: how to manage your time in 2022

    We only have about 4,000 weeks of life on average, says the writer Oliver Burkeman, so make sure you are prioritising what really matters

October 2021

  • ‘My minds churns like a cement mixer’ … Emma Beddington tries early-morning meditation in her garden.

    Meditation, vodka and vinegar: can the morning routines of the rich and famous make me a better person?

    I am not empowered or optimised by my current morning routine. I am a bleary-eyed doom-scroller. So I spent a month ditching my phone, exercising, journalling and embracing the dawn, to find out what really works

August 2021

  • An illustration of pairs of eyes on an orange background

    At best, we’re on Earth for around 4,000 weeks – so why do we lose so much time to online distraction?

    Silicon Valley makes billions by stealing your attention. No wonder it’s so hard to focus…

January 2021

  • Zoe Williams

    What did I learn from a time management guru? There is only one urgent task for me right now

    Zoe Williams
    We need sleep, rest, exercise, love and fun to remain passably human. But for many of us in lockdown, the most pressing job is to avoid conflict with our loved ones, writes Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

December 2020

  • illustration by Pete Gamlen

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Why time management is ruining our lives – podcast

    From the audio long reads archive: All of our efforts to be more productive backfire – and only make us feel even busier and more stressed
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