I read a brief article last weekend by Jeremiah Owyang that led me to try something new at work this past week. The article was called "Pay Yourself First" and it dealt with being more intentional about getting your to-do list items done early in the day instead of allowing others to impose their to-do …
Category: Time Management
Leap Year Lesson #270: Redeem the Time
I had no intentions of getting up at 2:00 a.m. today, but the thunderstorm and my scared dog had other plans. Once the storm passed and my dog was sound asleep, I was still wide awake with my mind racing over several subjects. In that situation, I've found that it's just best to go ahead …
Leap Year Lesson #225: Be Selective About How You Fill Your Day
While looking over my calendar today at work, I bemoaned the fact that I had more time scheduled in meetings than I really felt like I could afford to give if I was to get more pressing things done. Fortunately, one long meeting was cancelled and another went for only half the time scheduled. Still, …
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Leap Year Lesson #204: It’s Nice When You Can Do Well in a Crunch, But It’s Better When You Don’t Have To
I had a perfect opportunity today to focus on one important thing that has a deadline of today. With no meetings at all on my calendar, I could focus on getting together a draft of a presentation that I was asked to draft by today. No problem, I thought. There is nothing else on my …
Leap Year Lesson #186: Find What Works For You and Run With It
Thanks to a holiday week with far fewer interruptions and meetings than normal, I got completely caught up in my email inbox at work and home today. What a wonderful, rare moment when I realized that I had no emails waiting on me in either place! Aaaahhhhhhh......... the bliss! Of course, that just meant that …
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