Productivity lessons from maternity leave (repost)
I’m on vacation this week and so am recycling some old posts. This one ran in November 2009, shortly after I had my second child. …Read More
Category Archives: Time Management
The Paradox of Weekends
I’m writing this on Sunday night after a fairly full weekend. While Friday evening was relatively low-key, Saturday and Sunday were not. We drove to …Read More
Dessert: Another reason to love mornings
It may be the most widely reported diet story of the year. Researchers in Tel Aviv put hundreds of overweight people on one of two …Read More
Less than 40 minutes per week
I may have found my new favorite data set. The Center on Everyday Lives of Families at UCLA did a study of 32 middle-class, dual-income …Read More
Round-up: Tracking time, your boss’s marriage, etc.
From time to time, I'm asked to recommend productivity or time tracking software. It's a question I've resisted answering for two reasons. One is that …Read More
Time management is like chess
Decades ago, I had a brief interest in chess. I played around with a board and I read through books of the greatest matches. I …Read More
A matter of perception
Friday morning I had the rather exciting experience of taping a segment for the Today Show. I woke up bright and early in my hotel …Read More
Welcome Today Show viewers!
I'm writing this on Thursday night, and I'm scheduled to be on the Today Show tomorrow (Friday) around 7:40 a.m. I'll be talking about my …Read More
The half-hour problem
Long-time readers of this blog know that I have a favorite data set: The American Time Use Survey. This annual study from the Bureau of …Read More
The last 15 minutes are always crazy
A few years ago, I read a Real Simple article about how several women had reformed their mornings. They wanted the daily trip out the …Read More