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Photo by Bethany L KingI have often been challenged by the concept of work-life balance. It seemed to me that this should be implemented like a pie chart, applied daily. So much time for work, so much time for relaxation. I realized that this is not always possible on a day-to-day basis. There are days [...]

Originally published on 21 April 2007.
Before I found Flylady, I functioned as I had been taught. I would give, give, give, and end up overworked, stressed out, and worst of all, a martyr. I put everyone’s needs before myself, and it showed.
One of the first emails I read from Flylady repeated the old airline mantra: [...]

Originally published on 15 January 2007 as “Key To a Balanced Life: Scheduling and Planning?”
In the article “Treat Your Life Like You’re Still At School“, Allen Galbraith puts forward a methodology to balance life. He says that one should schedule life like one is still at school, making time for the various subjects, creating a [...]

Originally published on 21 December 2006.
This concept has been on my mind since running across it at Lifehacker article “What Would Your Time Diet Look Like?”. What would my time diet look like? This is the quote that struck me:
If cutting foods out of my diet and saving money was easy to do by writing [...]

Unintentional Multitasking
I had two problems with doing straight out-of-the-book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity(aff). While I loved the idea of getting everything down into a trusted system, I found I was overwhelmed with the sheer number of things on my action lists. I also found that when I was in a physical [...]

Originally published 4 September 2006.
A few weeks ago, I posted the essay on Saying No. I ran into a situation this weekend where I wasn’t so successful in saying no, and have managed to get myself into a pickle. The funny part is that it is the same clarinetist I wrote about last time. This [...]

Originally published on 4 July 2006
One of the greatest freedoms of getting a handle on what is in my life is not saying yes, but in saying no. Having somewhat an unrealistic view of my time, I have a tendency to over-commit. Using Getting Things Done has allowed me to see what is on my [...]

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Too many people talk about living a balanced life, as if life can be slotted into the chunks of a pie graph. The truth is, we don’t balance. As Joan Borysenko said in her book Inner Peace for Busy People (aff), “Even airplanes veer off course during the trip, and they have computers to guide [...]