Tag Archives: busy

task management, Getting Things Done, and actually getting things done

So, as you might know, I’ve been working on a big project, away for a bit and am now settling back in at home. And it’s good.
I’ve been thinking about how vacation is a bit like rebooting a computer, setting everything back to its natural state, giving yourself the opportunity to start over again, fresh. [...]

my week “off” from work

I’ve taken PTO this week to work on my book. I have a rough draft and it needs polishing, and without seeing that page number grow it was getting hard to get motivated.
And this week has been really productive, just not in the way I had planned:

Had a great talk with a PhD student that [...]

some days are busier than others

Today I carried my office with me, in a bag, and ran from meeting to meeting for the entire day. The meetings were all good, but I wasn’t in my office after about 8:30am.
I just now caught up with email.
The good news is that I’m nearly done with my ACRL/LAMA presentations. I’m [...]

8 hours is a really long time!

I’ve been feeling overwhelmed lately with the amount of work that I need to do. You can probably tell that from the themes in the last few posts. I’ve been thinking about how much more productive I am when I do work at home and how I go to work and at the [...]