The Speed of Life Is your typical day a chaotic free-for-all filled with overflowing emails, last-minute meetings, and impending deadlines? Are you regularly frustrated by how little progress you make on your projects? Do you feel bone-weary tired at the end of the day – totally depleted and unable to focus? You aren’t alone. Not by a long
In the last week, I've had three clients express anxiety over what September is about to bring:
More time at work
More time running the kids aroundMore time volunteering/social clubs/etc.
Which means:
Less time
keeping the house in orderLess time to take care of yourself and othersLess time actually getting things done
But
I had the good fortune to sit down with Brigid Schulte, a wife, mother, award-winning journalist with The Washington Post and the author of her new book: Overwhelmed: Work, Love, Play, When No One Has The Time. In this heavily researched book, Schulte takes us on a journey around the world as she uncovers the roots of why we feel so harried and
Have you ever experienced nagging thoughts reminding you of a task you haven’t completed? Of course you have. You’re human. These nagging thoughts are called the Zeigarnik Effect. And yes, it's an actual thing. Bluma Zeigarnik, a social scientist in the early 20th century discovered that our minds “let go” of tasks that are completed and “hang on”
Which scenario sounds most like you? Scenario One: You made a to-do list awhile ago but it was so overwhelming you couldn’t look at it again. Mostly, you know what needs to get done because it is screaming the loudest in your brain. Pausing to write tasks down on a piece of paper (that you might lose) feels like a massive waste of time. Mostly likely
As many of you know, I don’t believe in let-me-tell-you-what-to-do-time-management. Why? It doesn’t work. What does work is the perfect-for-you time system just waiting to be fully discovered and put into practice - that's buried inside of you. It's been covered up by the endless stream of conventional time management advice that everyone is
Did you know that your Time Personality can give you more time in your schedule and more freedom in your life?
Your Time Personality can point you towards
your best
approach to managing time effectively – without getting frustrated with traditional time management strategies that won’t work for you.
Your Time Personality
Back in the 7th grade I broke my arm during basketball practice. I was terrible at basketball. I tripped while running backwards and soon found myself lying on the gym floor with my head propped against my not-quite-leather jacket (a must-have accessory back in 1992). It didn’t take long for my mom to show up and ask if this was my way of getting out
This is what
the “delegation conversation” typically sounds like with one of my clients:
Client: I have so much to do and it is starting to sink in that I don’t have time to get it all done.
Me: This is progress. Once you can see the reality of being over-capacity, you can see different solutions. What are your options?
Client: I could
“We need to change the entire meeting book.” These are pretty much the worst words you can hear when you’ve been up for 20 hours, it’s well past midnight, and the meeting in question is slated to begin at 8am. But this is not just any meeting, it’s one that took several months of planning, coordination, hand-holding, ego-stroking, and bureaucratic
