It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
-Henry David Thoreau
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Racing – Time & Energy

Do you ever get so filled with energy? And find yourself accomplishing lots of things in a small amount of time? This is a great thing to use to your advantage, though be aware of any possible consequences it might hold for you.

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Define Your Time

Time is fascinating yet the better we “handle” this limited commodity, the more effective we feel. Here’s one way to evolve your time to work for you and feel great.

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Efficiency can be Fun

Are our lives more full than they were a century ago? Here’s a fun anecdotal book about a family of 12 children – and the parents were motion study experts. The focus is all about efficiency – not multi-tasking, nor speeding through your tasks – simply reducing the unnecessary steps for your actions.

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Using Your Planner

After doing reviews of some physical planners, here are some things to consider when choosing a new planner for yourself – calendar and to-dos. Most important is finding something that works with how you function.

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Use Your Time Intentionally

An odd synchronicity with “intention” in my life and learning (NAPO conference) and how it relates to how we spend our time inspired me to write this – sharing, not the need to be more productive, but rather just increase how conscious we are about how we’re spending our time.

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Work Smarter, Not Harder

Like the sleep cycles we all have, we have cycles of energy. We need to maximize our energy without neglecting the renewal part of the process. We can use the timer for this as well and avoid regular days of exhaustion.

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Set Times for Handling E-Mail

An embarrassing thing happened to me, I’d responded to an e-mail in my mind and forgot that I never physically did it. This just reinforced the idea that we need to set aside specific times for handling e-mail as well as by doing this we’ll be less likely to let the mailbox overflow.

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Making Time Means Setting Priorities

If you know what your priorities are and can schedule time to focus on them, you’ll discover that you have enough time. This is easier said than done sometimes, though as you align your values with those priorities, it becomes easier.

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Only Handle It Once

The largely touted organizing and time management principle of “Only Handle It Once” (O.H.I.O) is easily taken too literally and misses the point that taking “handle” more figuratively does increase our efficiency.

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Be a Human Being Not a Human Doing

We are often concerned with how productive we are; yet without balancing all our needs, we wear ourselves out. Then we inadvertently behave in the very manner we want to avoid! There is a simple way to prevent that – to pace ourselves and make time for ourselves each and every day.

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