About
Who is behind ManageTime?
ManageTime is made by Jaap Leemeijer MSc, a registered psychosomatic physiotherapist in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, and it stays free, with nothing to sign up for. His working week is spent with people whose stress has turned physical. Long before that point there is usually a calendar problem: too much to do, no way to choose, and a planning system that quietly died in week two. This site is the preventive end of that work, in English.
Why does a physiotherapist run a time management site?
Because time pressure walks into his practice every day, dressed as something else. Psychosomatic physiotherapy is the Dutch specialization that treats the physical side of stress: breathing that stays high, muscles that will not let go, sleep that stops repairing. By the time someone needs that treatment, their diary has usually been losing to other people's demands for months, and rest alone no longer fixes it.
ManageTime is the earlier intervention. It sorts 17 established methods by how you already plan, focus and follow through, instead of ranking them, because the ranking question is exactly what keeps people cycling through systems that were never going to fit. The advice is editorial, every method traces back to a named book or essay, and nothing here costs anything or asks for your email address.
What experience sits behind it?
Jaap runs his own physiotherapy practice and has spent his career in primary care, with psychosomatics as the main focus. Most of his caseload is stress- and burnout-related; the rest spans chronic pain, anxiety and complaints medicine cannot yet explain.
treatments given, the majority for stress- and burnout-related complaints
in primary care practice, with psychosomatics as the central focus
patients seen in an average working week at his own practice
These numbers describe his clinical practice, not this site. The registrations behind them are listed in full, with links to the public registries, on his Dutch profile page.
What is his training?
- BSc Physiotherapy, HAN University of Applied Sciences
- MSc Psychosomatic Physiotherapy, Hogeschool Utrecht
- BIG-registered, and a member of the KNGF, the Dutch professional association for physiotherapy
The methods in his clinical work lean evidence-based: the Van Dixhoorn breathing method, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, motivational interviewing and mindfulness-based interventions. You will recognize the same instinct on this site. Methods come with named sources, editorial judgment is labeled as editorial judgment, and heuristics like the 80/20 rule are called heuristics, not laws.
What does he believe about getting better?
The frame he works from defines health as the ability to adapt and to keep a say over your own life, not as the absence of complaints. Applied to burnout, that means recovery is measured in regained choices rather than suppressed symptoms. Applied to time management, it is this site's whole thesis: the goal is not squeezing more into a day, it is ending the day knowing the right things got your attention.
That frame is also why this page does not end in a sales pitch. ManageTime has nothing to sell you, and a method that fits needs no salesman anyway.
Where does ManageTime fit among his sites?
ManageTime is the English member of a small family. burnout-help.nl covers burnout recovery and stress-baas.nl covers stress, both in Dutch and both closer to his clinical work. This site sits furthest from the treatment room: it is for the reader whose problem is still a calendar problem, and whose best move is a method that fits before anything else has to happen.
Where should you start?
Not with him; with yourself. Read the four working styles, pick the one that sounds like a normal week, and take the two or three methods that match it. Find your method, or browse all 17 methods if you would rather see the whole shelf first. And if what you are carrying feels bigger than a calendar problem, the Dutch sites above are the better door.