• Deliberate Living By Mom Sayings

    Mom sayings: there are certain things that all moms seem to say. I don't know where they started, but I know that my mom said them (or variations of them), and they can all be looked at in the light of deliberate living. Here goes:

  • 5 Ways To Survive A Task Explosion

    Have you ever found that there is a time when your life is suddenly frantically busy? So much that there are not enough hours in the day to accomplish everything. I've heard this called a Task Explosion. I think explosion is an apt description, because for me it always happens suddenly, I never see it coming, and it sends me…

  • Time Management 101

    Managing time is the basis for all productivity systems, yet the systems assume people already know how to do time management. This is  not a fair assumption. Most people don't know how to manage time, but turn to productivity systems to help them.

  • My Habit Tracker Choice

    I looked into switching from my paper habit tracker to apps in October. After evaluating three of them for a few weeks, I have finally made my habit tracker choice.

  • Doing Time Compression Right

    One of the ways to get things done faster is to use time compression: set a tight deadline and then pare down the task at hand to the bare essentials.

  • Finding a Habit Tracker

    Do you know how well you do on actually completing the things you consider habits? I’m a big believer in tracking habits so that I have the hard-and-fast numbers to show me, eliminating my mind’s bias in how well I do.

  • Changes to My Bullet Journal, Oct 2023

    I’ve been using a Bullet Journal - in the original, minimalistic sense, for about 5 years. I’ve experimented and adjusted, but I’ve never really written about my experiments. I made some big changes this month, and I thought I would share them.