Time Management
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009Dogs, kids (x3), neighbors, neighbors’ dogs (x3), laundry machines, vacuum cleaners, TVs, stereos… The home office can be one foolish place. And it doesn’t even have to be April 1st. How do you conquer the chaos? Simple: Tell them, “Leave Me Alone.”
From Day to Week, Maximize Your Home Office Time
Thursday, January 15th, 2009It’s one thing to look at your work life day by day. But what about a week-long snapshot? A day-long view tends to keep us focused on the day itself. But by taking that longer view we can take five days, and parse them into bite-sized, more manageable bits. It’s not about some grandiose plan [...]
Parsing the Home Office Day to Boost Productivity
Saturday, January 10th, 2009My day can be a chaotic thing. Mornings start in the home office anywhere between 4am and 6am, with a little USAToday, New York Times, and some client work. I then get the kids ready for school, see them off, then return to my home-based workplace, for a little more concentrated work. Mornings often are [...]
Life, Home & Office Sites That Move & Motivate
Monday, December 8th, 2008I have an iGoogle page and a Facebook. I read the New York Times and WebWorkerDaily, FreelanceSwitch and FreelanceFolder. I use Google Alerts, and I broadcast my band’s shows and gigs on uStream.tv. We’re surrounded by various tools and sites that improve everything from organization to my productivity to the fun and spirit we enjoy [...]
The Mood Borne of Friday With GNR in the Home Office…
Friday, November 21st, 2008No sooner does Monday come than Friday has arrived. I knew it was Friday: My kids were slower to rise from bed, the wife was headed to work, and I had a happy mood about me. And I hadn’t even had a cup of tea yet. But when someone (a respected exec, no less) proffered [...]
Still Staying Focused & Organized in the Home Office … And Life
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Barack Obama achieved the nearly impossible last night: He was in three places almost all at once. He was in South Florida, speaking to thousands of admirers. He was in Orlando speaking to thousands more. Then he was on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, speaking to a million viewers. All this, after speaking to [...]
Double the productivity in half the time
Thursday, January 10th, 2008Around the holidays, I made some purchases that would come back to nag me. First, I bought a TomTom One PGS device. Very cool. A highly recommended concept. Except my device kept needing to be reset (you know, where you straighten a paperclip and shove it in that tiny hole in the bottom). I also [...]
Balancing the family’s circadian rhythm
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007I’m an early bird. Not surprisingly, my kids are night owls. So when they need help with homework or want to hang out, Dad’s pretty much worthless after 9 p.m. or so (that’s Mom’s cue to step in). But homework, projects, studying for tests, etc., all must be handled – often with help from an [...]
Get out there
Friday, October 5th, 2007I got out of the home office yesterday. I know it doesn’t sound like some major endeavor. But I realized some time ago that when you work in an office isolated from the masses and detatched from the rest of the working world, you have to deliberately schedule time out of the home-based workspace, or [...]
The Home Office ‘Maytag Man’
Monday, October 1st, 2007I’m sitting in my home office, cranking out some work and getting prepared for another Monday. A little office organization, some blogging, a bit of light-duty work. The clock tells me it’s around 3 a.m. My friends – if they were awake right now – would tell me that’s whacked. But that’s OK. I’ve blogged [...]
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