Running long, and the dilemma of plausible goals
I ran the Philadelphia half-marathon early this morning. I ran it several minutes faster than I ran it two years ago. Despite having walked a …Read More
Category Archives: Free Time
Next year’s performance review
In my speeches on time management, I suggest an exercise to get people thinking about their medium-term goals. Many people get an end-of-year performance review. …Read More
Sunday evening parties, and turning three
My son, Sam, turned three last week. We invited his new classmates over to our house Sunday in the late afternoon and let the kids …Read More
Space for spontaneity
One of the reasons I like planning a few “anchor” events for my weekend is that I find a few plans still leave plenty of …Read More
September in Saugatuck
I had a fun confluence of events this past weekend that had me back in the Midwest. I was invited to speak in Chicago at …Read More
The exhaustion of doing nothing
I’ve been writing a lot lately about weekend time management. I know that sounds like an oxymoron -- weekends are the time we don’t have …Read More
Wringing every last drop from summer
I hadn’t been planning to do anything special for Labor Day weekend. We spent the last weekend of July at the beach, and I took …Read More
Tuning up my weekends
I have been thinking about how I use my weekends as I study how other people use theirs (for my next ebook in the series …Read More
Travel with the kiddos
Several months ago, Jasper, my 5-year-old, decided we should go to San Diego. I’m not sure quite how he got this idea, but in the …Read More
A week at the shore
I’m back from spending a week in Ocean Grove on the Jersey shore (a more relaxed, family-friendly part of the shore than depicted in the …Read More