Time & Life Management

You may have noticed that managing tasks can be a daunting task (pun intended) – and you are not alone. Most people make the huge mistake of trying to keep everything in their head – remembering a long list of things that they need to do – even keeping an extensive shopping list in their head.

My resolution to not consult my phone the myriad of times a day as I have been prone to doing prompted me to wear a watch again. While away on vacation over the winter holiday, I was lured by the Swatch Watch store in Times Square to step inside.

Spring Cleaning often involves clearing out drawers and cabinets, tossing out papers, and even changing out clothing for the warmer season ahead. It’s also important not to overlook taking care of cleaning out the computer files that ---while they may get ‘shoved out of the way’ --- remain as clutter in our technology.

You know you should be using a calendar on a regular basis – but do you? And for those who do, are you overdoing it with too many calendars to consult in your busy life? If you answered NO and YES respectively to those questions then you may be just like the multitude of people who miss appointments or are late or simply don’t get as much done in a day as they wish.

You see, calendars and the proper use of them allow us to stay on track – to keep up with

Much of the holiday stress begins right about this time of year – before Thanksgiving and through the beginning of January. For some that could mean nearly two months depressed or stressed at a time that is supposed to be celebratory and enjoyable.

This is not my typical blog subject matter, but it does have relevance here and shortly you will see why.

THEMED planning is simple. It takes the concept of list making to a different level.

How many of you find that your "to do" list has become a royal pain in the neck? Some days I just didn't want to make a list because I didn"t want to do those things on it. Ah ha! I said it! It can become so daunting, right? What I found I needed to do was see the big picture through the minutia.

If you are reading this, then you just survived the first of the holidays this season... Thanksgiving! Now that it is over and Chanukah is in full gear, you can get ready for the end of the year.

When Spring Break arrives, for many, everything else in life comes to a halt. We drop our normal routines. Our schedules become more relaxed, and not much may get done. And that's the way it should be. This goes along with the old saying, "Stop and smell the daisies."

It was a Sunday night, and my 9 year-old computer had been behaving badly for many months. It took forever for it to go from one program to another, and always with the rainbow spinning "wheel of death" just spinning, and spinning, and then sometimes turning into the blue spinning "wheel of death."