this time ~ this space

By timethief • July 21st, 2008

This weekend my partner and I decided that we needed some time to get our firewood all cut and stacked before the fireban that prohibits the use of power tools in the bush goes into effect. As we heat our home with an airtight woodstove this is a very important job that cannot be done [...]

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s comments on success were: “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether [...]

Doreene Clements created The 5 Year Journal to make journaling easy and effective.
Keeping a journal has many advantages and benefits. Whether you write a few lines or pages, through journaling, you can record and track a lot of information that can be easily retained for future reference. You can actually see what you were thinking [...]

I’ve previously written Twenty Top Time Savers and today I found that another wordpress.com blogger has prepared a brief list of 11 time management tips that I’d like to draw reader attention to.
My time management way is much simpler.
I have a list of GOALS - not tasks.
I just keep doing things that are related to [...]

My husband and I are both older children from large families. As we devoted a number of years to raising younger siblings we are keenly aware that women who make the choice to nurture another human being from infancy to adulthood (and beyond) face an enormous stress load. And, without doubt that stress has [...]

If you feel like your life is chaotic, it’s probably because you haven’t organized the way you handle the different things in your life into systems.
Systems are anything that happens regularly in your life — errands, laundry, email, kids lunches, etc. They can be either simple or complicated – depending on whether you’ve given them [...]

Top Twenty Time Savers
Go ahead and ask people you work with what their biggest stressor is and they will say: “There aren’t enough hours in the day!”
I can relate. Can’t you?
I used to fall into bed utterly exhausted but my mind was still reeling. Finally, I learned how to control my time instead of letting [...]

A group of friends were seated on my back deck complaining about how frustrated they were with their colleagues at work and in organizations because only a handful actually accomplished the work. Most are in supervisory or managerial positions. Story after story was told. Eventually the teen-aged daughter of one chimed in saying she had [...]