Line up to check out? Subway slow? Buses busy? Keep a notebook with you so you can jot notes for other projects, thoughts, lists or activities while waiting. Ideas often come to us while our brains are supposed to be concentrating on other things.
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When planning your schedule for the day, allow time to get from one place to the next: anticipate traffic delays.
Headed for a workout in the morning? Whether you go to the gym or hit the pavement/park for a run or bike, lay out your gear the night before – all of it including clothes, socks, shoes, gloves, keys, phone, shower gear, work clothes and anything else you need to take. You’ll be primed when you wake up and can go on autopilot until the endorphins kick in.
Take advantage of the time delay features on dishwashers and washing machines to get chores done when hydro rates are low, but you’re busy with more pressing matters — like homework, bedtime, or reading a good book.
Struggling to find time to weed the garden? Try using 15 minutes a day to tackle whatever weeds you can pull in a quarter hour. By the end of the week you will have invested over an hour of weed pulling!
If you have to drop something off somewhere, leave it in your car. It’s so much easier to drop something off when you’re in the neighbourhood, instead of making a special trip.
At the end of the day, spend 15 minutes writing down the top 3 things you want to accomplish tomorrow. You’ll wake up with purpose and focus.
We just celebrated my son’s birthday with a big party at an indoor carnival. Despite having the party outside of our home, there was still a lot to do. Most importantly, you have to start planning early. These venues are booked far in advance of the actual celebration. So, what do you need to consider when scouting around for a party location? Here are a few things you will want to keep in mind:
· Is there a dedicated party room?
· Is there a sink in the room?
· Will you have to share the space with other patrons?
· Is food provided, or do you need to supply your own?
· Will you have access to a fridge?
· Will there be a staff member assigned to look after your party guests?
· Where are the washrooms?
· Is there somewhere for coats, presents and loot bags to be safely stored?
Answering these questions will let you know if you’ve found the right place for your party and exactly how much will be left for you to sort out before the big day.
Happy New Year
Best wishes to all our readers for a healthy, happy and prosperous coming year. May all your goals for the year be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and accomplished by this time next year!
Resolutions?
Do you have any New Year’s Resolutions? How about a few key items on your To Do List for this year.
My suggestion is to stick to no more than 3 items and if you can, just put one item on your resolutions list. Set yourself up for success. This allows you to keep your attention to the one thing you want to accomplish. It reminds you that you have one key priority in addition the routine day to day priorities of life.
Have fun and good luck.
I have 4 hours all to myself today: that is, all to myself and the mound of paper work that accumulated while I was off tending to clients.
We schedule our meetings with clients, with staff and all manner of other related services for our lives but how often do we book time with ourselves to clear out the clutter? Unfortunately we know from decades of time management publications, that unless a priority activity is booked into our schedule, it will not get done. Is that why perhaps, some administrative or maintenance tasks in your life don’t get done?
Consider booking a regular meeting with yourself to accomplish some of the mundane tasks that life asks us to complete. It might be clearing kids school paperwork, catching up on correspondence, filing (electronically or otherwise) the bills that have piled up. If you book time on a regular basis, you will be surprised how some of this stuff doesn’t get a chance to pile up. Depending upon the task, it may be only 2 hours a week or perhaps one day a month is all that is required to clear out the backlog and keep up to date.
