admin on November 25th, 2009

I am stuck.  I am resisting writing new articles for my blog.  In an interesting twist of synchronicity, I found myself reading The Little Rules of Action from Zen Habits.  The opening quote is “The shortest answer is doing.”
In the interest of doing, I am presenting Zen Habits, rules to get unstuck:
1. Don’t overthink. Too [...]

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admin on May 19th, 2009

Today–again–I had someone ask me about time management.  We ask to manage time, as if we can control it.  We are told to think only of the present moment, yet our mind–at least mine does, anyway–keeps walking ahead of us and wondering how much time we have and questioning our management skills.
The question is not [...]

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admin on April 15th, 2009

I was struggling today to slog through my list of tasks and I was feeling more and more weight on my shoulders.  Then I discovered this prose:
…the primal cause of that inconvenient dissatisfaction is the feeling that you are every day leaving undone something which you would like to do, and which, indeed, you are [...]

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admin on March 8th, 2009

I have been reflecting all week on kairos.  It has really struck me that a perfect life seeks to capture kairos.
Finding kairos helps us to get away from all our “shoulds” and really focus on what we really want.
I stumbled on another passage, from Mark Freir of What If Enterprises,  that profoundly touches on creating a perfect [...]

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admin on February 26th, 2009

I asked a client what her biggest challenge now was, with a new baby and an entrepreneurial career.  She said time. 
I am often asked how I manage time with 3 busy kids, a self-employed husband and my own busy coaching business.  I thought about what I could say different about time management, that hadn’t already been said [...]

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