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26 time-management and productivity tricks you should have learned in your 20s (but it's OK to pick them up now)

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A Montreal-based graphic designer created this guide to being productive. Etienne Garbugli
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Most people learn time management the hard way: by trial and error.

For instance, Ike Eisenhower struggled to prioritize tasks during his presidency. This made it difficult to stay organized while making tough decisions. Therefore, he developed a method known as "The Eisenhower Matrix," which allows people to divide their tasks into smaller lists of four based on urgency and importance.

Étienne Garbugli, a Montreal-based product and marketing consultant, has invented a technique to master time and work.

Garbugli is the author of "Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want" and creator of "Control Alt Deceit," a card game designed to replicate the process of starting a business. The designer created the following presentation, posted to SlideShare, which we've shared here with his permission.

This is an update of an article originally posted by Max Nisen and Jenna Goudreau.

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Shana was a correspondent for Insider, where she covered career development and workplace culture.In 2022, she published "Don't Call It Quits" to help professionals who feel stuck in their careers find greater happiness at work.Shana spearheads the HR Insider series, for which she's interviewed talent chiefs at Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, shared tips from an ex-Googler on knowing when to change jobs, and demystified the hiring process at Salesforce. She regularly publishes news analysis; past topics have included burnout among US workers, gender and racial dynamics within HR, and the hybrid workplace.She has moderated programs at Chief and the Harvard Business School Club of New York and has appeared on Cheddar and Bold TV.Before beginning her career in journalism, Shana studied English and psychology at Brandeis University and received her master's degree in English literature from Columbia University.
 Tat Bellamy Walker is a Strategy Fellow at Business Insider. He previously interned with Inc. Magazine,  CNN’s New York News Bureau, and covered LGBTQ politics for The Daily Beast and NBC.