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Archive for May, 2010

I saw this article today and thought it was a good read so I wanted to pass it along.

http://tinyurl.com/2fumkxf

Happy Entrepreneuring!

I am amazed at how quickly time can run through our fingers. I have to apologize for a bit of an absence here. I had to have surgery and in the aftermath, I focused on what I HAD to do and wasn’t always able to do what I WANTED to do one of the things that kept getting pushed to the back burner were updates here. Before I knew it, three months had gone by and I realized that I had gotten lazy about managing my time and needed to get back on track.

Time is like water. Water can’t ever be completely controlled. We might throw up a dam and think it’s under control, but that’s when a crisis will happen and we’re faced with either a flood or a drought on one side of the dam or the other.

Finding the balance is tough, but crucial. If we hoard the water above the dam (worklife) so we can get a lot done, the land below the dam (homelife) will dry up and die. If we let too much water flow downstream, we don’t have enough resources above the dam.

Planning our time is the cornerstone of good time management. Otherwise, you’ll be like me and turn around and time has floated downstream without much to show for it. Over-planning is just as dangerous and you can start to feel like a slave to the calendar and resentful and when that happens, we start sabotaging ourselves.

So, for me, it’s back to a schedule, with time for work and time for family and a little bit of room to let the water flow and do its work in case Mother Nature sends me a rainstorm.