m2h blogs by Marcia Hansen

My job with SMU has ended for at least a couple of months. It’s a mixed blessing. I will definitely miss the money, but I won’t miss working those 20 hours each week combined with the end of the semester workload. On the plus side, this will certainly help me finish everything [...]

When studying, to avoid losing huge quantities of time:
1. Set a timer.
2. When the timer goes off, ask yourself “am I going down a bunny trail?”
I have been doing A LOT of reading and thinking about my networked rhetorics class and was almost ready to post, but then realized I went down a [...]

I’m inspired and need to figure out how to use my time more efficiently.
Resources/Suggestions:
1. Keep a timesheet like jill/txt. Keeping a timesheet like this might help me focus myself and recognize where I might recapture blocks of time. Update: I originally meant this as a completely serious comment; now with her [...]

I’ve been hanging onto a blog post by John Porcaro that I’d printed about Bill Jenson’s book, The Simplicity Survival Handbook.
I wanted to remember his advice regarding email that gets acted upon.
Know, Feel, Do:
1. Tell me the one thing you want me to know.
2. Tell me why I should care.
3. Tell what [...]