The Great American Soap-off (aka the laundry time-suck)
Most of the chapter titles in 168 Hours are fairly vague ("A Full Life"). But one is quite specific: Don't Do Your Own Laundry. The …Read More
Category Archives: Habits
Time Makeover: Stephanie Graham
As promised, I am finally starting to load some more “time makeovers” up on this blog! The good thing about putting these online is that …Read More
The next feminist issue is sleep…or not
Over at The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington and Cindi Leive (Glamour's editor-in-chief) have taken up a new cause for the new year: getting American women …Read More
What is the most important thing you could be doing?
In some of the pre-pub press on 168 Hours, I've been referred to as an "aspiring time management guru," which isn't entirely true. I wrote …Read More
Quote of the day
"Your email is not your work; it is simply a tool to help you do your work." -- Paul Sloane at Lifehack.orgRead More
Productivity lessons from maternity leave
I have been trying to work a lighter schedule since Sam's birth on September 24. I'm feeding him every 3 hours during the day, plus …Read More
How Orhan Pamuk focuses on his core competencies
The Weekend Journal section of today's WSJ has a round-up of how various novelists crank out their words. It's a comforting article, in some ways, …Read More
Grandma’s greener than you
That's the subject of my most recent USA TODAY column--about how, by living as frugally as possible, Americans who lived through the Depression (or other …Read More
The Take-Out Trap
Looking to get out of the house the other night (see the post about 168 hours and an infant), and not wishing to cook, I …Read More
Creating time to “re-create”
Many of us feel like we don't have a lot of recreational free time these days. In fact, we have more time than we think, …Read More