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Time
Managing Your Priorities, Calendar, and Commitments
Whether you’ve thought about it relatively little in the past, or whether you’re a calendar-organization obsessive, working parenthood forces you to think longer and harder than ever before about time management. From Day One straight through the teenage phase, you’ve got more to accomplish each day than time to accomplish it in. The relentlessness and urgency can easily leave you feeling harried and depleted. If that’s the case, your colleagues and kids have probably noticed.
While all of the usual techniques for handling busyness and a high workload—working longer hours, sleeping less, multitasking, reorganizing your time-keeping system—may help a tiny bit in the short term, ...
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