Well, I suppose I can share my secret to time management. It can be summed up in one word: Procrastinate! All tasks expand to fill the time allotted (see Murphy, 1887b). Put off all of your important projects until the very last minute, when you think that you will need a miracle from God to get things done, and then wait a bit longer. Once you begin, the pressure of the situation will focus your mind, and you find that your productivity is four or five times what it would have been had you started "on time". You enter "the zone", time is compressed, all need for sleep is extinguished, the endorphins kick in, and away you go! ZOOM! This is the only way a lazy bum like me could get a Ph.D. and simultaneously manage two careers and multiple hobbies. Follow this strategy and you won't know what to do with all of your free time. A warning, however: You need to avoid the trap I sometimes fall into of getting overcommitted, thinking that there is no limit to what you can accomplish. While procrastination will greatly expand the limits of your productivity, some limits will nonetheless remain. So that's it. The key is procrastination. It's all very simple. :-) Dan Hagen Bellingham, Washington *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Mar 02 1998 - 19:33:00 PST
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