Archive for the Manage Goals & Time

Tomorrow is election day. Presidential elections are always an exciting time in my family, as we don’t all see eye to eye, but there’s no doubt this year is different. It’s not just the candidates, or the times we’re in, but it’s also the first election my daughter is following. She’ll always remember this as […]

I rant and rave consistently about the need to block your time- but BOXing time can be the technique you need to handle certain tasks. Time boxing is about creating time limits, then boxing an activity into those limits.  Wherever you are at the end of the box- you’re done. No exception. You might be complete, […]

At the GP/Solo conference in Santa Fe next month, there’s a presentation called Pajama Practice: Lawyering in a Home Office. Obviously I don’t do any lawyering, but I do work from home. Not usually in pajamas, which are inconvenient when I have to walk the dog. My office is a separate space; it looks like an […]

First- know there are lots of “how tos” that aren’t in this post. Time blocking is just one time management tool. You can learn ways to manage interruptions, to prioritize, to delegate, etc. I’ve coached a 4-month time management program and I’m currently offering a 4 hour one. Implementing time management techniques requires commitment and consistent […]

In the time management class I led recently, I learned that time blocking is a case where a picture is worth a thousand words. First- the words.
Time blocking concepts:

You get more done in significantly less time by focusing. Multi-tasking is inefficient; it takes 50% more time to do something when you are multi-tasking.
Grouping like tasks […]

 
Well, not yet, but jet skiing, aqua bouncing, water sliding and lake swimming. I’ve been on vacation & offline for a week, in the gorgeous Pacific NW. We’re in a rental at Lake Chelan, WA. The unit has a lovely pool, a well-stocked pantry, and comfortable beds, but no wi-fi.  I intended to hit the […]

Much press has been given to the results of a recent 6-month Kaiser Permanente weight loss study finding that participants who kept a food diary lost more than twice as much as participants who did not. Weight Watchers has been proving this for years, but it must be an idea whose time has come! That’s […]

This morning, the 4th and nearly last day of my daughter, Hanna’s, soccer camp- we couldn’t find the ankle pad for her shin guard. She’s grown out of everything, we’re down to one set of guards, and this one was incomplete. MUCH gnashing of teeth. MUCH grumbling. NEARLY tears. And the car pool approacheth…
We found […]

Front page, Saturday, June 14, NY Times: “Lost in E-mail, Tech Firms Face Self-made Beast”. The article discusses how the use of email has “fractured” attention spans and hurt productivity. Intel and other companies are heeding the research and conducting workplace experiements to assess the problem and generate solutions.  A Besex study in the article […]

June is a great month to check in with how your year is going and make changes if you need to.  To set the stage, start clearing your mind and your to-do list of all of the little things that are bothering you. Coaching programs have long called these ”tolerations”. I see it as an audio stream […]