Building a better to-do list
(Laura's note: I'm taking a vacation from blogging this week, and I'm re-posting a few pieces from the archives that you may have missed the …Read More
Category Archives: Productivity
Productivity for spontaneous sorts
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been doing time makeovers for a number of readers. Last week, we looked at Lisa Lane, who’d taken on …Read More
How to cope when life is crazy busy crazy
Regular blog readers know that, over the past few months, I’ve been having dozens of people log their time for me. Some of these are …Read More
Keep your focus (and tidy the basement while you’re at it)
If you’re like me, you probably have a wide variety of personal and family projects that threaten to occupy your mental space when you're supposed …Read More
My well-measured life (part 2)
In addition to tracking my time, I also spent last week keeping a food journal, and logging my runs with a bit more detail than …Read More
But what if I’m not a morning person?
I’m having a lot of conversations and sending emails back and forth with people this week about their time logs. There is a lot of …Read More
127 timesaving ideas for busy wives
That retro headline is taken from the cover of the May 1963 issue of Good Housekeeping. I recently took on an assignment to compare extant …Read More
So you want to run a home-based business…
I’m speaking in a few months to a group of women who are in the early stages of starting home-based businesses. Having been self-employed for …Read More
Does the Super Bowl fumble your Monday morning?
The weekend after next brings the Super Bowl, that annual festival of traditions including overpriced commercials, 7-layer dip and a curious one for we business …Read More
Broaden your scope
One of the “most successful people” I interviewed for my next ebook, on how people spend their workdays, was former race car driver Sarah Fisher. …Read More