Friday miscellany: Slow starts
Just a quick post as I am typing this in my basement at 6:30 a.m. The bad news is the toddler was up at 5:15 …Read More
Tag Archives: time tracking
The new morning schedule
We are still over a week from school starting around here, but I've gotten the bus schedules, and I’m trying to figure out what school …Read More
Time will be filled with something
We've had a lot of big summer adventure weekends lately, and have another coming up, so this one wound up being more low key. It …Read More
First drafts
The Tranquility by Tuesday project featured 9 time management rules. So, unsurprisingly, the Tranquility by Tuesday book is going to feature 9 chapters. I just …Read More
Mommy Day #4 and some kid updates
One of my goals for the summer was to do "Mommy Days" with all four big kids. This would be a one-on-one day doing something …Read More
The 2-minute rule, and its discontents
Much productivity literature wrestles with the question of what to do with incoming "stuff." A task appears. What do you do? There are various systems, …Read More
Forgetting
Longtime readers know that this year I've instituted what I call my "rituals." Each day, I read a chapter in War and Peace (with the …Read More
Comparison
Sarah and I just got done recording a Best of Both Worlds episode on the "compare and despair" phenomenon that social media seems to engender. …Read More
We should all be time millionaires
Today has already had its time and logistical challenges. The toddler was up at 5 a.m. and would not go back down. I took him …Read More
My out-of-office message
I have gone on plenty of vacations in my life, but I have never actually created an out-of-office message. That's partly because there's no other …Read More