Patricia Stoltey

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Don’t Go Away, No Matter What the Award Says

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Here’s some good stuff I found this week from a couple of my favorite blogs:

Cricket McRae talks about To Do Lists and priority tasks in Insane Time Management at her blog, Hearth Cricket.

In A Lesson on Focus at Two Old Horses and Me, Jean McBride gives us an example from the workday of her two Scotties and wonders how much she could accomplish if she had that kind of single-minded determination to stick with a project for an extended period of time.

And now look at this delightful award I received from Yvonne at Welcome to My World of Poetry.

No, I don’t really want anyone to go away, but I do need to learn how to manage my time better and resist new projects until I’m caught up on the old ones. I’m a victim of my own eagerness to take on anything that sounds like fun, but even fun needs to be rationed.

So now you see why the two blog posts I mentioned above were especially interesting and helpful at this busy time. Good time management requires focus. And the simpler the plan, the better. Good advice.

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  6. Patricia! I just found this great time device – go on Mytomatoes.com – there is a whole book you can download and read but you don’t need to – you can just use their system right on line or get your own tomato timer (or any sort of timer). You work for 25 minutes – the bell rings and you have a five minute break. I got something done today (a submission) in four tomatoes! Yay. It is very fun and works….

  9. Hi Pat,
    Thanks for the shout out! I wish the two little terriers were mine, but they belong to another horse lover. Love the mug – I definitely need one. Along with a huge dose of focus and time management. Thanks for keeping us on task.

  10. I’m betting we could find a mug like that at one of the online sellers like zazzle.com. I’ll have to look — as Kay says, we always need to make time for coffee.

  14. Good morning, everyone. My time management project for today is to ignore all newsletters and Yahoo! Group digests and deal only with deadline tasks. I’m hoping for a very productive day.

  15. Patricia – Congratulations on that award! I must find a real-life mug that says that. I would love to be able to actually use it sometimes. You make a solid point, too: if writing is going to be a priority, it’s so important to manage one’s time so that it can.