Here is the simplifying adventure of the day that put me on cloud 9 for the next 14 hours (until now and still counting).
I’ve mentioned that we are starting a Saturday Farmers Market here in Nevada City. Seeing as none of us on the planning committee have ever begun a market before, we’re figuring things […]

Tip o’ the day, compliments of a client.
For those working in an office environment shared with other people, it can be easy to get distracted listening to conversations happening on the other side of the dividers. A client today told me uses an earplug when on conference calls to minimize those kinds of distractions.
When we […]

I can’t believe it has taken six years to pick this tip up.
Here’s the issue. Whenever you call a Verizon Wireless subscriber and get voice mail, you listen to the person’s message and then listen to the recorded voice jabber on and on about this option or that option. At this point in cell […]

I can’t rearrange the hours in the day. I can’t rearrange the minutes in an hour.
What I can choose is what and how much I do, and the mindset with which I do it. There’s yet another piece of time/life management that affects how my week plays out which involves the process of scheduling.
What […]

Progress report #2 (progress #1 on Aug 14) for Inbox Zero experiment: Success!
(Reminder that the Inbox Zero game comes from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders. My hat’s off to him for this one!)
It’s been about 10 weeks of a daily empty inbox. The options have become progressively easier to fly through: “delete, delegate, respond, defer, […]

Feeling overwhelmed? Remembering what “short-circuits” the brain can give you powerful ammunition to create work habits that support your well-being.
The primary reason your brain goes into overload is that it doesn’t know what to do–it gets confused.
1. Know what you are doing. If you don’t know what the goal of your work activity […]

OK. The newsletter is coming out a day late this week–Thursday instead of Wednesday–despite all our good intentions and early workings. I thought I had a solid first draft of the article completed before the weekend. Apparently a foolish belief after my conversation with Lance about it. Don’t get me wrong–it wasn’t bad per se–he […]