Originally Published: September 28, 2023 Revised: May 25, 2026 I remember when I was eleven years old and my parents took me to the bank to open my first checking account with Bank of the West. My dad owned his own business and had learned that he could save on taxes by having my sister and I manage the money in our own accounts. The skills that I learned to balance a checkbook then are similar skills to what I use and apply to time management. Manage Time through the Proc

A few weeks ago, I found myself standing in the cereal aisle at the grocery store and staring at the options from “high protein” to “low sugar” to “kid’s favorite.” In that moment, I wasn’t hungry or excited. I was, however, quite overwhelmed. What should have been a simple task to select a cereal and continue shopping suddenly felt oddly draining. And I caught myself thinking: Wasn’t this easier when there were just a few options and you picked one without thinking? That m

Every year, I have a goal to read the number of books for that year (e.g. 23 books in 2023, 24 books in 2024, 25 books in 2025). I find that this goal supports me picking up a book instead of doing mindless doom scrolling on my phone, watching endless hours of streaming, or (heaven forbid) sitting bored in a waiting room.

If you’re reading this, I am guessing you also have to deal with expense reports from time to time. And that you likely dread doing them. That, or perhaps you lay the stack of paper-clipped receipts on your assistant’s desk and delegate the task onto them to handle (for an informative conversation about delegation, listen to Delegating for Rainmakers conversation with Scott Love from June 2025).

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