productivity(1/1)
Everything worth doing depends on cooperating with others
Our culture’s ideal is that you alone should control your schedule, doing whatever you prefer, whenever you want–because it’s scary to confront the truth that almost everything worth doing, from marriage and parenting to business or politics, depends on cooperating with others, and therefore on exposing yourself to the emotional uncertainties of relationships.
Visualize your time with a budget
I was recently inspired by Sharon Ello’s Quarantine Question of the Dayto update my time budget, and it occurred to me that others might benefit from this tool. Many have lost their daily structure under the executive stay-at-home order and could use a visual aid to wrangle their schedules back into order. I have many priorities to cram into a week. It happens that, if I don’t plan chunks of time to meet these priorities, the quietest priorities are pushed out by the loudest.…