Once I was late for a call with former coach.
What made it more significant  than just ordinary lateness was the fact that this was the first call we had arranged.
Her response was even more drastic, to my mind.  She put a clause in our contract that stated that if I were late for another call, […]

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In other posts on this blog, I lament the lack of proper research in the entire field of time management, but recently I did come across the following paper that describes some empirical results in a study of interruptions.
The original article that quoted the study was  from the New York Times, and it’s entitled “
When […]

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In the 2Time Management system, there is a fundamental practice called “Interrupting” which is essential in helping to bring a user out of the Flow state when it’s time to move on to the next time demand, or it’s time to attend to an ermegency of some sort.
An article from 2008 in the New York […]

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By special guest blogger — Andre Kibbe of Tools for Thought (
Tools-for-Thought.com)
A great strategy for maintaining focus is to to set up visual cues that return your attention to your intention. Cues can take many forms: a photograph that represents some component of your ideal lifestyle, a written goal, an entry on your calendar, or […]

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Definition
In the book titled “Flow” by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the author talks about the optimal psychological state - one in which a person gets lost in the activity at hand. They get lost in time, and experience a kind of empty silence as they focus all their attention on the task at hand. Their […]

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