The social life of busyness
Does self-help work, these posts relate my own experiences of applying self-help methods.
My brief foray into auto-ethnography of time management has come unstuck. The initial idea to work through self-help literature on time and write an immersive, reflective account of the utility of these techniques is appealing in the abstract but far harder to realise in practice. Auto-ethnography can be popularly dismissed as self-indulgent academic practice that…
Reflections on tracking time use through colour
During 2019 I will be experimenting with auto-ethnography and self-help books. I am aware this might sound quite self-indulgent, but it seems a reasonable starting point for engaging with self-help books on time and I promised the Leverhulme Trust that I would do this and they are funding me for three years. I decided to…
The benefits of getting up early are endorsed in self-help literature on time management. It is not only a question of getting up early, but focusing on getting the hardest stuff done first. The is the principle of Brian Tracy’s bestselling book Eat that Frog; to be successful you should learn to prioritise the most…