Skip to content

Posts from the ‘Time Tools’ Category

Daily Dose 36: Concentration Cycles

Let’s see, we are supposed to be automating routine tasks and attending to exceptional ones, making a process for everything, organizing files, and never neglecting a single thing we think is important (even if we never realized how much work it would be to do….) Read more

Daily Dose 24: Executive Oversight 3: The Agenda

Almost every complaint I have had with myself about not having adequate time to do whatever I thought needed doing, has been resolved by the spiritual impact of the Lord’s Day on my wrong thinking, and by the practical impact of my Executive Oversight time to puzzle through to a solution of how to do what must be done in the time available.

So many wonderful things happen on Sunday, I don’t like to “waste” any of it, even for a regular nap. Of course, I have both enjoyed and needed an occasional Sunday nap, but draw the line at laundry, mopping floors, or even routinely cooking big fancy dinners. Read more

Daily Dose 22: Executive Oversight 1: The Need

When I answered the phone one afternoon, the college administrator on the other end began by apologizing for the interruption. “Quite all right,” I responded. “I’m a mother. I never get interrupted, I just change focus a lot.” Truer words were never spoken. Rarely have more helpful words been spoken. Changing focus is what we need. Read more