A favorite and consistent habit of every person working aboard an ocean going merchant ship is marking off each day on the calendar. A big X signifies another day done and dusted. Sometimes the calendar is a large one on the bulkhead (that’s the wall you land lubbers!) and for others a smaller calendar on the writing desk or by their bunk. It’s a combination of seeing the days gone by and looking ahead to the days when it’s time to leave the ship and go home again. Other than a few words … [Read more...]
A Certainty Is Time Will March On
It is the end of the first quarter – the first three months – of 2018. Let’s warm up with a little talk about time. One of the great equalizers is time. No matter who you are, where you are from, where you live, how educated you are, how much money you have, how connected you are, what title you have, how many trophies you have, EVERYONE has the same amount of: hours minutes seconds IN EACH DAY. The difference maker is clearly something else. It is what you do with your … [Read more...]
Would You Like To Have More Time?
Why don’t our goals or resolutions get accomplished? Many of my initial client conversations on this topic begin with –“No time! I really do not have any time for it!” Really? Would you like to have more time? Think about how many demands there are on your time. We are all so really, so very busy people aren’t we? In fact, take a moment and either on your device or a good old pad of paper take note of the ten things pulling at your time right now. Quickly, just ten … [Read more...]
