First up, I think it’s funny anyone would ask me about managing family and work life Last week after I asked what you would all like me to write about here, two readers asked for ideas on how I manage the whole work-life balance thing. My first thought was that I kind of don’t. The…
Category: Time management
Housework as exercise and what three weeks of tracking time showed me
I finished three weeks of writing down what I did during my days, and how much time I slept. It was an interesting exercise in finding out exactly where my hours go and why I often feel I’m not accomplishing much on some days but am still really tired by 9pm! I already blogged some details…
A second week in hours
I’m currently tracking my time to see how I’m spending my 168 hours each week and what I can do to use them a bit better. A few of my Facebook friends are doing this at the same time. You might also like to try it for yourself and see what insights you get from…
A week’s worth of (interrupted) hours
Last week I decided to keep a log of all my hours after reading how a time-management expert, Laura Vanderkam, kept a log of hers for a whole year. She wrote both on her blog and in a New York Times article about how tracking her time helps her to ensure that the way she spends it…