My approach to conferences: pack it all in
I wrote this in a coffee shop in Madison, NJ, on Saturday while waiting for my family to pick me up. We were on our …Read More
Category Archives: Time Management
Another day in the life post
I have been tracking my time for 3 months now. In the comments on yesterday’s post, SHU asked if this accountability affected how much time …Read More
The sleep-deprived parent’s dilemma
It’s a funny thing with larger families. You always think that one more kid than you have is the definition of madness. I’ve had a …Read More
When busyness ebbs and flows
There are no typical weeks, but what if your life features a cycle of typical and atypical weeks? What if one week out of every …Read More
168 hours on vacation
When people offer to send me their time logs, they generally want to show me a “typical” week. This tends to mean a full work …Read More
Would you want to be two places at once?
Kamy Wicoff, the founder of SheWrites.com, and a writer herself, recounts a moment of inspiration for her new novel Wishful Thinking. “I remember at one …Read More
Sleep: Part of this American life
The American Time Use Survey is out today. Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics does this large scale time diary study to find out …Read More
Forget finding time for a partner. How do you find time to find a partner?
This past weekend I spoke at the Forte Foundation’s annual MBA conference in Washington D.C. My audience was a great group of young women who …Read More
You don’t have to start on Monday
Plenty of people would like to track their time, and there are many ways to do this. But it turns out there’s one particular time …Read More
Friday fodder: links, updates
This has been another full week of book promotion activities. I recorded 22 radio segments on Tuesday (and hosted the webinar for book club members …Read More