I like to mention at my resilience workshops that when it comes to time, we don’t manage it but it manages us. After all, there are only 1440 minutes or 86,400 seconds in a day. No more, no less. How you spend that time is how you define your priorities. The Rolling Stones in one of their earliest classic songs Time is On My Side, are not singing about time management but we’ll get our interpretation this weekend when we...

We received some great feedback from readers last week about addressing personal workload management and in a meeting with one of my clients this week, he told me that while the personal strategies were working, he was more excited about his success in addressing this issue of work overload as a team. He reminded me that just a year ago his team members were working 6 days a week on several of their projects and just recently several of his...

I was talking with a friend of mine recently who was telling me how overloaded she was at work. When I asked her how come, she told me that they just have a lot of projects going on and she just gets work piled on her. As we discussed the situation a bit more, she soon began to describe the two key aspects of work overload that befalls many us. The first is the fact that there is a lot...

My friend Susan and her husband, Robert have taken to bicycling around the globe. She recently told me about their trip to the Dolomite Mountains in Italy and how their most challenging day became the most memorable. Riding their bikes to a train station to head over to their next destination, a light drizzle soon became a persistent rain. Riding with their fellow travelers, they began to fall behind in their schedule and by the time they reached the station,...

A story on National Public Radio this weekend told the story of how Jonathan Bartles, an emergency room nurse at the University of Virginia Medical Center has introduced a way for his colleagues to take a moment to collect their energies following the passing of one of their patients. Bartles described how his colleagues would usually find themselves stressed after the death of a patient but would just move on to the next emergency until one day a minister walked...

When we lived in Texas, we would visit the Gulf coast and enjoy Padre Island. On our annual sojourn to watch the whooping cranes, leaping dolphins that would mesmerize me by their ease and grace always accompanied our tour boat. I found myself an appreciative witness to their beauty. Last week I took an Interplay class with one of my teachers, Cynthia Winton Henry. She talked about appreciative witnessing as a way of separating ourselves from the criticality we go...