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Not Practicing What I Preach

I hate when I don’t listen to me! There I was. Tuesday afternoon. I set my trusty egg timer. Ready to get to some serious work. The space was set, or so I thought. It was as though I’d forgotten the basic rules and I was the one who wrote them! I didn’t shut down […]

The Many Faces Of The Egg Timer

Egg Timers come in all shapes and sizes, from the very serious, get down to business variety as in your basic stainless steel and actually egg shaped model to my newest favorite, the pink flamingo. It all depends on how much fun you want to allow in your work space. I’ve been collecting them and […]

The Basic Principles Of Using An Egg Timer

The egg timer as a time management tool works on a basic principle. In order to create anything in your life, whether it is writing a book or winning new clients for your business, you need to create a container for that. This requires time and a space within which you can take the steps […]

It Takes An Egg Timer

What if the secret to creating and managing your time was not some elaborate system of charts or fancy new app for your iPhone?What if it was as simple as an ordinary egg timer? That is the premise of my new book, It Takes An Egg Timer, A Guide to Creating the Time for Your Life which […]

That Thing You Have To Do

I’m the first to admit it. I didn’t buy the tickets because of her music. I bought them because I have had a desire since I first published, The Secrets They Kept for Rita Wilson to read and love my story of a Greek-American family and make it into a movie. My expectation was not […]

Test Driving My Time Theory

I’ve been in absentia. Tucked away writing my next book, a part guide and part manifesto on how to create the time foryour life. If I said that left little space for me to write much of anything else, that might seem a bit hypocritical to the premise of my book. But it’s not. It’s called […]