Stuff I do not want for Christmas
The holiday catalogs are starting to pile up in my house. I will recycle them eventually, but in the meantime, I enjoy paging through to …Read More
Category Archives: Time Management
When the meetings pile up
When I tell people I write about time management and productivity, they often assume that I schedule something every minute of the day. This is …Read More
My Edison Talk video is live!
Last month, I participated in Chicago Ideas Week, and gave an "Edison Talk" on time management. If you've got 13 minutes and 40 seconds to …Read More
Notes on NaNoWriMo and pacing
I’m having fun with my NaNoWriMo novel. I started a fresh file and am writing from the beginning. While the characters are the same as …Read More
Is work still a priority now or not? (There is no right answer)
I tend to write about caregiving from the perspective of parenting young children, but as many readers have pointed out to me, elder care presents …Read More
The context of an hour
I spend lots of hours with my family. Over the past weekend, I spent the majority of Friday, and pretty much all of Saturday and …Read More
Those little administrative tasks that eat your time (or do they?)
Were I not tracking my time, my story of yesterday would go like this: I did almost no real work. Instead, household administrative tasks ate …Read More
How to manage a full-time job, kids, and start a business too
I attended the Rock the World conference this past weekend, and got to meet a number of fascinating entrepreneurs. One of them was Emilia Prahin, …Read More
Getting time with all four
One of the challenges of managing a brood (and it is a management challenge!) is getting solo time with each of them. They definitely respond …Read More
Conquer the world in 40 hours a week
I’ve been somewhat obsessed lately with the idea of “maximum sustainable progress.” Some people’s careers are not just productive but prolific. How do they structure …Read More