Create 1.1.1 Time Management Forum

List five time management tools in your blog and briefly describe their use and relevance to the online world. Does the tool relate to personal, professional, or a combination of both?

1. Power hours: At the start of an hour, I set a realistic goal and say that I will do nothing else for the entire hour.  I put all distractions away during this time.  Personally, this helps me carve out exercise, family, house work, and hobby time without being distracted.  Professionally, these help me to stay focused upon student work and be more in the moment.  
2. Record of what I have done: I find that people tend to create too ambitious to do lists and get burned out. Instead I thrive more when I focus upon what I have already completed.  I do this for both my personal and professional life.  I really find this method effective in teaching and more useful than the traditional lesson plans.  
3. Help the neediest: in any classroom (or family) there will always be one student, or person who needs help more than anyone else.  Because it might be impossible to help everyone at every single moment, it makes more sense to start with the neediest and help him/her.  Once this student is helped, move onto the next most neediest.   In my family, this has helped me give attention to five children, and my wife, whereas in teaching it helps to make sure that the silent student doesn't get ignored.  
4. Create routines: if there is a routine that is focused upon tasks to be completed, then it becomes a lot simpler to follow it, and more will get done.  In my personal like there are certain activities that happen at the same time, and it helps my wife and I stay sane as we shuttle five children around.  Likewise, in my professional like I focus upon certain classes, and tasks at the same time each week. 
5. Limit choices: it can be overwhelming to think of everything that needs to get done on a "to do" and thinking about what you could be doing can distract anyone from what they should be doing.  So once the "to do" is written, circle the most important item and do it.  It is tempting to make the mistake that planning is actually doing something, but it isn't.  And once one plan is made, often it will work as well as another.  So pick a task, focus, and then get it done.