Last minute party planning
I have planned a fair number of children's birthday parties over the years. However, after 18 months of Covid, I'm a bit out of practice. …Read More
Category Archives: Planning
What planning looks like
In my most recent weekly newsletter ("A week's worth" — do you subscribe?) I argued that a weekly planning session doesn't need to take much …Read More
Plan tight, then plan light
Over the years, I have become a Friday planning evangelist. Every Friday, I sit down with my calendar and my "planner" (a notebook from Target, …Read More
Friday planning and the spinning plates
At circuses or carnivals, some performance artists specialize in spinning plates. They hoist plates or bowls or some other such objects on poles and try …Read More
On not running the Philadelphia marathon
In an alternate universe, I would have run the Philadelphia Marathon this past weekend. Since my 1100-day running streak ended with the birth of my …Read More
What’s your fourth quarter strategy?
This has been quite the year. It is almost three-quarters done, which means there is one quarter left to go. Lots of organizations do annual …Read More
The summer of trying again
Back in January, as I often do, I made a camp spreadsheet for the summer. I put the weeks of summer along the left-hand side, …Read More
Making the most of two-hour delays
I woke this morning to snow, and to a message that the local schools would be delayed for two hours. It is yet another reminder …Read More
Got a new 2019 planner or calendar? Here are 7 things to write in now
When my podcast co-host, Sarah Hart-Unger, visited over Christmas, she looked at my notebook and calendar on my desk, and issued a proclamation: I was a …Read More
January is closer than you think (plus Friday thoughts)
The end of the year is an arbitrary thing. December 31, 2018 is a Monday and January 1, 2019 is a Tuesday. Many people have …Read More
