Last week I realized a big dream. I became a best selling author! Me. Joanne Tombrakos. My 3-Day Free Kindle promotion had taken my book, It Takes An Egg Timer, A Guide to Creating the Time for Your Life, to the #1 position for best selling free Kindle books in the Time Management category. For […]
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 […]
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 […]
No Where To Hide
I’ve been here before. At that point in a project where I want to run from it. Burn every last page I have written to assure that any trace it ever existed vanishes. Fire I find, is more satisfying that simply hitting the move to trash prompt. Fire does not allow me the leeway to […]
OWN: The Antidote to 24/7 Cable News
To any of the myriad of news organizations out there that have been predicting the demise of the OWN network, the reports have been greatly exaggerated. One need only to have been in the audience, as I was yesterday afternoon at Radio City Music Hall to know that. Some six thousand people, mostly women, filled […]
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