I get questions like the following on a regular basis: "I like reading your blog, and I’m amazed that you can get involved with so many things simultaneously and manage to get great results while living a balanced life. Could you talk a little about your time management techniques, and how do you prioritize your daily activities? I’m sure many readers would appreciate a post on these."
I sat down to write a long answer to this and realized that there is a whole category of self help books on this that takes up a ridiculous amount of floor space at Borders. I decided that rather than answer this in a blog post, I’d write another crappy time management book.
Not really. I don’t have time for that. Nor do I have any interest.
Whenever I’ve written on work-life balance, I get lots of compliments and thank you emails. I also know that some of the best blogging I’ve done are series like the term sheet series I wrote several years ago.
So – to try to answer this question, I’m going to start a work-life balance series. I’ll periodically blog about how I get things done, keep my sanity, and enjoy almost every minute of life. Some of it will be tools I use, some will be my philosophy, and some will just be me blathering on about something. Hopefully some of it will be helpful.
For the wiseasses out there, I know that your answer #1 will be "stop reading blogs – they are a waste of your time." But – I don’t buy this – I learn an enormous amount from the blogs I read (in my own special way which I’ll describe at some point soon.) Read on – maybe you’ll learn something too.