by Ellen Lyman | Apr 17, 2023
Let’s continue exploring overworking: Over the last several weeks, I’ve talked bout the habit of overworking, talked about email, the action of overwhelming, and wastefully lamenting being busy. This week I want to discuss how poor estimating can result in...
by Ellen Lyman | Apr 10, 2023
How much time do you spend each day thinking about, worrying about, talking about, or planning for being busy, overworked, and not having enough time? I suspect it’s more than you think. It can actually cause us to lose up to 2 hours of time each day. How?...
by Ellen Lyman | Apr 3, 2023
Overworking is reacting to an urge. Most of us who are overworking are doing so because we have established a habit of rewarding the urge to work. Our habit of overworking is self-created by both classical conditioning, and operant conditioning: Both are...
by Ellen Lyman | Mar 27, 2023
I have a love hate relationship with email. Email is easy to send and doesn’t require you to find a common time to talk to someone. It is an easy way to ask for something “without bothering people”. They can respond at their own...
by Ellen Lyman | Mar 20, 2023
Over the next few weeks, I will focus on the problem of overworking. There is much to unpack for this problem. I’ll share it a little at a time over the next few weeks. I like to start with a definition. Definition of overwork 1: to cause to work too hard, too long,...
