How to manage sick days (yours or otherwise)
The onset of winter has a depressing tendency to bring illness to my house. I've got a cold right now that will not quit, and …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Need a lot of sleep? How to cope
I have been tracking my time for the last 19 months. When I ran the calculations on the first 12 months, I discovered I was …Read More
Reader time makeover: Adding exercise and writing to an incredibly full life
Whenever I poll audiences about what they'd like to spend more time doing, exercise almost always comes out on top. Push a little bit more, …Read More
Better weekend coordination
While Sunday is not yet over, I feel comfortable saying this weekend went better than last weekend. Partly, it was that there was no swim …Read More
Random Friday thoughts
It's too hard to write an essay for Friday. So this will be a random assortment of thoughts and updates on life right now (non-political …Read More
My bad time habits
Over the past few weeks, I've been analyzing my time logs from the past 6 months. I began tracking my time continuously in April, 2015, …Read More
Bubbles and daily life
It was quite a night last night. My day started early, as it often does, with the added rush of trying to get my husband …Read More
Weekend hits and misses
On Friday, I wrote about my planning process, which is basically a list of lists. Does this process work perfectly? No! This weekend, for instance, …Read More
My planning process (or the list of lists)
One of the best parts of writing about productivity is that I have a good excuse for studying other people's strategies. Then I can take …Read More
20 miles along the Lehigh Gorge
People who have heard me speak (or read 168 Hours) know I often tell the story of where I first heard the line that "I …Read More