What’s ahead for ol’ Mikey?

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Inspired by Rani’s post about her upcoming work (hope that’s going well for you, Rani), it’s probably a good idea for me to look at the months ahead. The spring semester starts tomorrow. I’m spending today cleaning up my office, recycling pages and pages of article printouts, putting away the CDs ...

No Heroic Efforts

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I meant to add this time management rule to my previous Fall Review post. I  can't remember whether it originated with Mark Forster or David Allen, but it goes something like this: At all costs, avoid heroic efforts to get things done. Examples of an heroic effort would be pulling an ...

Fall Review

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Image via Wikipedia During 2007's fall break, I took a breather and penned (odd word for a blog post, but I'll use it) an update on how the semester was going and the changes I was going through at that time. A question from Brother Thomas and my friend Rani's firing up ...