I just can't hold back my curiosity any longer. After a day job, 7 hours of sleep, housework, studying, etc, I find I have about 30 minutes for dealing with e-mail. How do others find the time to read and respond to PaddleWise messages? Any help here would be appreciated. I feel like I'm drowning in information. Bill Ridlon Southern Maine Sea Kayaking Network *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Cut out the housework Dana At 09:00 PM 3/2/98 -0500, outdoors_at_biddeford.com wrote: >I just can't hold back my curiosity any longer. After a day job, 7 hours of >sleep, housework, studying, etc, I find I have about 30 minutes for dealing >with e-mail. How do others find the time to read and respond to PaddleWise >messages? Any help here would be appreciated. I feel like I'm drowning in >information. > Bill Ridlon > Southern Maine Sea Kayaking Network > >*************************************************************************** >PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List >Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net >Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net >Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ >*************************************************************************** > > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
> From: outdoors_at_biddeford.com > > I just can't hold back my curiosity any longer. After a day job, 7 hours of > sleep, housework, studying, etc, I find I have about 30 minutes for dealing > with e-mail. How do others find the time to read and respond to PaddleWise > messages? Any help here would be appreciated. I feel like I'm drowning in > information. > Bill Ridlon > Southern Maine Sea Kayaking Network > A lot of folks subscribe to the digest. You can always try that :-) Also, I don't think everyone tries to read every topic. But I have to admit that the productive value of the majority of the posts here on PaddleWise does make it tough to pick and choose :-) Jackie (glad to have too much info to choose from than not enough) _ _ _ _ _ \\ / \0/ \ / \0/ \ \\ " " `\ ,sSSs,\, )\w/( ,sSS..)/{) <<..> sSSS_v)/ \ )<*> sSS[(\_]___\ <(_/_o_o_ 'sS[_`-+---+) \----+-------+-------'---`-----\-------------') ~~~~~~~ ~~jf ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ ~~~~\~ ~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ o \ o \\ o o \\ o o ` (\ o o >jf:-) o (/ o *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
same problem here. I guess we have buzy lives, dude! I get about an hour a day in on the net and that's if I get up early (05:00 or earlier) Oh well at least it's worth it! Steve http://www.aldercreek.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
>I just can't hold back my curiosity any longer. After a day job, 7 hours of >sleep, housework, studying, etc, I find I have about 30 minutes for dealing >with e-mail. How do others find the time to read and respond to PaddleWise >messages? Any help here would be appreciated. I feel like I'm drowning in >information. > Bill Ridlon Hey Bill, I find that if I give up sleeping I can keep up with the mail quite well ;) Diane *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
On Mon, Mar 02, 1998 at 09:00:10PM -0500, outdoors_at_biddeford.com wrote: > I just can't hold back my curiosity any longer. After a day job, 7 hours of > sleep, housework, studying, etc, I find I have about 30 minutes for dealing > with e-mail. How do others find the time to read and respond to PaddleWise > messages? Any help here would be appreciated. I feel like I'm drowning in > information. I receive a *lot* of e-mail: mostly because I belong to a lot of mailing lists, am involved with numerous projects, etc. I use procmail to sort all incoming messages into folders, and mutt to read the folders; both are pieces of Unix freeware which do an excellent job of organizing messages so that I can cope with them in chunks. And I type fast. Housework? Rich *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
The biggest time saver for me (at least on mailing lists) is not responding to everything. More often than not there is someone on the list who has forgotten more about a topic than I will ever know. Wait a bit sure enough some one posts what I was thinking but says it better or says something that made more sense than what I thought anyway. . The other time saver is not to read stuff that doesn't interest me. Probably miss some good stuff that way but I do have to do the housework. John Winters Redwing Designs Specialists in Human Powered Watercraft http://home.ican.net/~735769/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
Any computer programmer can tell you that sleep is a poor substitute for caffeine. michael dianem_at_sd61.bc.ca wrote: > Hey Bill, > > I find that if I give up sleeping I can keep up with the mail quite well ;) > > Diane *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
I don't find the time. My cats take turns writing my posts for me. If you see a post with an early morning or late evening time-stamp, I wrote it. If you see a post with a mid-day time-stamp, my cats wrote it. They use voice recognition software, so please forgive the occasional syntax problem. Richard Culpeper Merlin & Morrigaine www.geocities.com/~culpeper *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************
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