Wondering how to be more productive in your daily work at the office and at home? Do you feel overwhelmed by the projects and tasks you need to complete on a regular basis?
Help! I Have To Organize Everything…Right Now!
We’ve all had those days where things are a mess: appointments are missed, lines of communication are stalled, plus, you aren’t sure what day of the week it is. Before you devote..
Label Me, Label Me Not…
A few months ago I covered the word “label” in a Hidden Power of Words entry. While I dove into the word origins of labels and whether or not one actually needed language or symbols to write on a label (color-coding anyone?), I started thinking about physical or...
Time To Rethink Time
It’s that time of year again…as New Year’s Eve creeps forward, it’s time once again to naturally rethink or revisit how we organize and manage time (in general) as one calendar year ends and another begins. I wanted to share two news stories this week which caught my...
Reading Order
Traditionally one reads a sentence, then a paragraph, chapter, section all the way up to book/magazine/tome and so on. But does one necessarily have to read items from cover-to-cover? Traditional print mediums such as print newspapers or magazines are finite. When you...
Making Time…or Using Time?
In American English, the phrase “make time” represents either planning ahead and budgeting time for a future activity or event and/or canceling or rescheduling previous engagements. The phrase can also represent the need to plan for something important or something...
The Life Cycle of Belongings
There’s a hidden story behind all of your belongings; a larger reflection of the world at large and that great big circle of life. Have you ever thought that your belongings go through a life cycle of their very own? Birth, life, death. All of your belongings fall on...
Organization as Time Travel
I’ve always been a fan of books, movies and TV shows that involve the concept of time travel. Off the top of my head I can think of the following: “A Christmas Carol,” “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court,” “The Time Machine,” “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” “Back...
Keeping Time
Time management requires the ability to mark the passage of time. Our ancestors marked the passage of time with sundials and hourglasses. Nowadays we keep time mostly with digital clocks and to a lesser extent analog clocks (those with a “face”). Today’s post includes...