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    Time Management

    This is an archive of all of our site's past entries in the Time Management category. Click on a title to read the full entry.

    The Relative Schedule

    I was at my niece’s place last week (my sister and her husband live there, too =) She’s a happy kid and has an amazingly good life for a 7 week old–though life as she knew it has just ended–Dad’s paternity leave just ended and back to work he goes. I went down to help [...]

    Designing your schedule: Holding space

    The Tip Allow time in your schedule to hold space for your well-being. Your wise-self knows approx how much. The Tip Explained Have you ever thought that your schedule looked doable, yet your experience left you feeling rushed and bewildered about where all the time went? It’s easy to look at availability in terms of [...]

    The Today List Challenge

    Last issue I gave you a sneak preview of August’s Today List Challenge… now it’s time to roll!! Do you underestimate the amount of time tasks will take? Do you unwittingly fall prey to distractions? Does your mind flirt with magically expanding time that just doesn’t quite fit within the confines of a 24-hour day? [...]

    Getting to the nitty gritty

    Romping around the field of possibilities for your garden is great fun. You can shoot around ideas for hours. At some point though, if you want to create your vision, then you need to get specific about which plant you are going to put where. Likewise in your workflow, big picture planning sets your stage, [...]

    For the love of chocolate, use the phone!

    Ohhh my pet peeve (I can only imagine the kind of person who’d want this kind of pet) is obnoxiously barking in the yard… Two times in the last week, two different people changed or warned of a change for an appointment that was to happen in less than 4 hours… here’s the kicker… by [...]

    Getting silly with transition time.

    The last post ended up in a medical airlift rescue due to the dangers of inadequate transition time. Now let’s take transition time to the mindfulness camp. The photo is what some of us did at the end of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference. “Wha’ the–,” you may ask. Indeed. At the end of the second [...]

    Changing gears mid-pedal

    When I was a bicycle tour guide in Italy, I remember rounding the corner in the support van to find one of our clients, Joe, in the middle of the road, on the ground, screaming in pain. Joe was in his ’70s, and had already had a few hip and knee replacement surgeries. He had [...]


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