by Jane Pollak | May 15, 2020 | Balance, Time Management
My action partner started our call bemoaning time management. She’s not a complainer, so I took note of her angst around the issue. I blurted out sympathetically, “Time management is a muscle, not a gift!” Only because she paused the conversation,...
by Jane Pollak | Apr 23, 2020 | Be Inspired, Delegating, Home Office, Persistence, Personal Development, Time Management
I enjoyed cleaning my Logitech keyboard last week and thought I’d tackle my slow-operating vacuum cleaner today. I took the dust receptacle apart and saw (online) that you can run water through the filter. I noticed that it didn’t flow easily. On closer...
by Jane Pollak | Apr 16, 2020 | Balance, General Wisdom, Persistence, Personal Development, Self-care, Time Management
When I concentrate on my personal progress, the difficulties over which I have no control will iron themselves out. That was a sentence in my daily reader yesterday that could not be more apropos for April 2020. I’m always reminded in the Serenity Prayer to...
by Jane Pollak | Dec 17, 2019 | Business Planning, General Wisdom, Organizational Skills, Persistence, Self-care, Small Business, Time Management
When I was working on my memoir a few years ago, I went on two separate self-designed retreats where I rented an AirBnB for a week or two, holed up with my manuscript, and spent each day focusing on the task at hand. I spread out the pages of each chapter, re-read...
by Jane Pollak | Dec 10, 2019 | Balance, Business Planning, Organizational Skills, Small Business, Time Management
I promise, this is not a humble brag or a disguised way of having you compliment me (but go ahead if you must). I seriously don’t quite get this malady, but I’m clear I have it. On my Visions Group call every two weeks we each (there are three of us) have...
by Jane Pollak | Jun 22, 2017 | Balance, Home Office, Time Management
There was a 3-hour appoint-free window in the middle of my Tuesday this week. An earlier meeting at 102nd and Broadway ended at just after 11:30am. The next one wouldn’t be until 3:45pm down in Chelsea, the West 20’s. I’ve secured space at the...
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