Time Management Skill: Ask for Help
Posted by Jan Wencel on Fri, Jul 23, 2010
If you're directionally challenged like me, you'll understand why I was so excited to test and then write about a new-to-me website Route4Me.com with companion iPhone application.
The idea: enter several addresses into the magical machine, and it will plot the best route to hit them all in the most efficient sequence as well as provide step-by-step directions from one to the next...adding a round-trip closure if you'd like.
Since it goes a step beyond the multiple-destination mapping feature I use all the time on Google and gives my iPhone this multiple-destination genius which it previously did not have, I thought it was love at first sight.
And then I got stuck trying to get the dang thing to work.
I understand you typically have to invest time to learn and to populate technology before it delivers, but 45 minutes (a lifetime in today's measures) later and I still have no plan for running my errands?!@#$?!
Long story short. I finally snapped out of the technology trance and called someone with navigational skills. Two minutes and a chuckle later, I was on my way.
What time management tools are you overlooking?
P.S. Hopefully I can regroup and test Route4Me again. Others have given it thumbs up, so I'm guessing I will...eventually...agree. (I did. And you'll find that post here.)