In the case of feeling overwhelmed, guilty, or confused, our boundaries go to mush— we give in or withdraw.

We talk to the visitor, answer the e-mail, and pick up the phone. Sometimes, we do all three at once!

This exercise demonstrates a fundamental challenge in time management—to stay in contact with one’s own agenda while participating with other agendas.

Many people are just fine at catching ideas, but they let them lie—wherever.

put the next step trigger-note on top, and move the project to the side.

At that very moment, you take literally only a few seconds to jot down a word or fix an image in your mind. You might also take a mental “snapshot” of the physical position of your body or the particular pen that’s in your hand before you respond to the person. With each of these conscious acts, you press your internal Pause button to stop the acti

The teacher recommended limiting my reach to as far as my least able limb could go.

one moment is just like the last, and the next, and the next.

The three-phase close-down is a means to make graceful transitions between tasks.