What have you quit or said no to recently? Do you feel too busy, as many people in the United States feel? And were you raised to not be a quitter, like I was raised?
An elderly Quaker woman, a veteran of many good works, told me 20 years ago that when she took on a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'time management'
When Less Is More
February 12th, 2009 · 3 Comments · community, simplicity
Tags: life·time management·volunteering
How To Save Five Hours A Week
September 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · energy, food & drink, lifestyle
Do you suffer from time poverty, i.e. feel that you don’t have nearly enough time? I periodically do, and I’ve seen it termed an American epidemic. The irony and the good news is that many of what I call the over-activities eating up our time and stressing us are the same over-activities that are eating [...]
Tags: breakfast·carbon footprint·consumption·cooking·dinner·global warming·green living·life·lunch·Mount Tabor·running·shopping·thrift·time management·time sink
Prius vs. Honda Hybrid vs. Other
June 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments · lifestyle
My friend from Santa Cruz, concerned about global warming as I am, asked for advice yesterday about the car purchase she needs to make.
It happens my husband Thor did lots of research recently about whether to buy a Prius or a Honda Civic hybrid. We chose the Honda, for reasons given here, but we use [...]
Tags: auto safety·carbon footprint·carpooling·cars·electric cars·energy conservation·environment·global warming·green living·happiness·Honda Civic hybrid·hybrids·life·Prius·renewable energy·soundproofing·SUVs·time management
The Inconvenient Truth of the Diamond-Cut Life
January 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · lifestyle, sustainability, work
Bad news here for the advertising industry, but good news for human beings and all other species. Research from many countries shows that after people’s survival needs and some reasonable pleasure needs are met, consumption piled-higher-and-deeper does NOT create more happiness. Rich is not great. Greed is not cool. Working harder might be moving you backward.
Inconvenient, at least for 20th century notions of economic growth and GDP, but
Tags: carbon footprint·culture·economics·economy·environment·GDP·global warming·happiness·Jared Diamond·life·time management
The Inconvenient Truth of the 168-hour Week
November 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments · lifestyle
“I do care about global warming, but I’m too busy to (fill in the blank)”. I hear this cry often in one form or another. The blank can be many things: buying local produce, changing light bulbs to compact fluorescents, using public transit, using a clothesline instead of the dryer.
Feeling too busy to do things we know in our guts are the right things to do is like
Tags: carbon footprint·climate change·culture·environment·global warming·Inconvenient Truth·life·time management
