A New Endeavor- It’s About Time!

February 11th, 2010

I’m hauling out the clock photo again. I know I used it recently, but it’s appropriate. I also used a pun in the title. I would apologize- I’m not a fan of puns as a rule- but in this case, I kind of like it and I’m not really sorry. In fact, I’m fighting the urge to add a exclamation point to the end of the title. (Oops! I lost!)

Here’s the deal: Everyone I know spends a lot of time lamenting about their lack of time and trying to squeeze the most of it out of every single day. Maybe it’s because I spend a lot of time around entrepreneurs with multiple endeavors and full lives outside their work, many of those lives including small children, but man-o-man does it come up a lot.

As the regular readers know, I have a corporate job, two blogs (YourIndustryInsider.com & this one), a professional writing and career consulting business, and a family which includes a two-and-a-half year-old and an extremely charming and handsome husband who may be a regular reader of this blog (happy V-day, honey!). Oh, and I have a large circle of beloved friends and a rich inner life as well. So the time thing is big for me. 

If you read Six Steps to Sanity for the Time-Deprived, you know I have developed a lot of tricks and tips (and mental games) that help me get everything done. It’s a constant issue and not something I am always successful at, but I usually manage to keep up with the top priorities.

It seems inevitable now. I have been hired to help a busy entrepreneur get a grip on the time thing.  The new client is someone I know through a women’s business group we were both members of a while back. She had read something I wrote which mentioned the above list of elements in my life, and a few others which I was dealing with last year. She was impressed, she told me, and I was flattered.

She wanted to know how I did it. I gave her some ideas (and sent her the “Six Steps” blog post), but she wanted more help. She mentioned that she figured I didn’t have time to coach her (one-on-one career consulting is not something I do that often now- you know, usually I don’t have enough time), so she wanted to see if I could refer her to someone and I did, but I also thought about how I would do it.

And I realized all of the mental processes I use to prioritize my goals and manage my time could be easily taught to someone else. In fact, the idea of helping her accomplish the cool things she is trying to do- and also get some measure of peace in her life, seemed so gratifying that I agreed to do it.

Of course, I’ll let you know how it goes. And there will be more posts about time management. And I may just use the clock photo again. And exclamation points, too!

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