Time Management Tips

Insights from Jonathan Bannister, MD at Make Happy

Jonathan Bannister – The Magic Countdown Timer

“There’s also a secret – which is when you visualise time like this, time moves slower (That’s not exactly true but I tell everybody that!)”

Jonathan Bannister

Managing Director, Make Happy

Jonathan leads strategic planning at Make Happy and brings his wealth of experience to find the right strategy for their clients. Here he gives his top time management tip – The Magic Countdown Timer.

Transcript

“In the past I tended to use a stopwatch which was a little something that can count down and I think you look at it and because it is numbers and it’s ticking down it’s nowhere as powerful as this and I use it in all my workshops because I will put it up in the front and it reminds me but it also reminds the group and visually they see. There’s also a secret – which is when you visualise it like this, time moves slower (That’s not exactly true but I tell everybody that!).”

Everything for me is a checklist.

Jonathan Bannister

Managing Director, Make Happy

Jonathan Bannister – The Power of a Checklist

Jonathan leads strategic planning at Make Happy and brings his wealth of experience to find the right strategy for their clients. Here he talks about the power of a checklist.

Transcript

“Everything for me is a checklist. In terms of what I need to do for the month, what I need to do for the week, what I need to do today. And then with each of those, I actually will break down the tasks into further checklists. That’s mine. If you don’t get it into a list you can’t work out how best to do it.”