Comments on: Do you feel guilty about this? http://empiricalcoaching.com/blog/time-management/do-you-feel-guilty-about-this/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:02:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: mbentleyford http://empiricalcoaching.com/blog/time-management/do-you-feel-guilty-about-this/#comment-1600 mbentleyford Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:52:16 +0000 http://empiricalcoaching.com/blog/?p=420#comment-1600 Why are so many people preoccupied with someone else's definition of themselves? It 's a wonderful experience recognizing that there is no one else like me in the entire universe... ...and as so simply put in Angie Stones song "I'm so happy being me"! Why are so many people preoccupied with someone else’s definition of themselves? It ’s a wonderful experience recognizing that there is no one else like me in the entire universe…

…and as so simply put in Angie Stones song “I’m so happy being me”!

]]> By: Elizabeth Dalzell http://empiricalcoaching.com/blog/time-management/do-you-feel-guilty-about-this/#comment-1594 Elizabeth Dalzell Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:44:37 +0000 http://empiricalcoaching.com/blog/?p=420#comment-1594 So the chicken really DID come before the egg! I am so frustrated with this right now. Not only do I attempt to answer my emails, I get interrupted while doing this by fellow employees or phone calls. And I find the same problem at home. It is very difficult to fold laundry or accomplish anything else while handling emails...or talking on the phone. I have 3 people that call me throughout the day and want to talk with me for 1/2 - 1 hour each. They are either driving or retired or don't have anything to do at the moment. Unfortunately, I don't have 3 hours a day to just sit on the phone and chat about what I did that day (which is NOTHING, seeing as I've been on the phone with them or handling emails). I like the chicken idea...I'm going home and going to find mine and carry it with me! Work, home, everywhere! I have changed the times of day that I talk with these 3 people to fit my schedule and have found this to work much better. As for emails...I think sometimes curiousity gets the better of us and we read the "trash" that comes in rather than filing it immediately in 13 - and then we also get sucked into buying new fangled doo-dads that end up taking up space in our basement...and then you have to clean it out 10 years later....it's just a vicious cycle! I would love to have no computer, phone, television or magazines for 10 years...my life would be MY LIFE again! Maybe...? Thanks for listening. So the chicken really DID come before the egg! I am so frustrated with this right now. Not only do I attempt to answer my emails, I get interrupted while doing this by fellow employees or phone calls. And I find the same problem at home. It is very difficult to fold laundry or accomplish anything else while handling emails…or talking on the phone. I have 3 people that call me throughout the day and want to talk with me for 1/2 - 1 hour each. They are either driving or retired or don’t have anything to do at the moment. Unfortunately, I don’t have 3 hours a day to just sit on the phone and chat about what I did that day (which is NOTHING, seeing as I’ve been on the phone with them or handling emails). I like the chicken idea…I’m going home and going to find mine and carry it with me! Work, home, everywhere! I have changed the times of day that I talk with these 3 people to fit my schedule and have found this to work much better. As for emails…I think sometimes curiousity gets the better of us and we read the “trash” that comes in rather than filing it immediately in 13 - and then we also get sucked into buying new fangled doo-dads that end up taking up space in our basement…and then you have to clean it out 10 years later….it’s just a vicious cycle! I would love to have no computer, phone, television or magazines for 10 years…my life would be MY LIFE again! Maybe…? Thanks for listening.

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