Are you suffering from too much multi-tasking? Over the past 7 weeks I’ve been traveling all over the country, giving speeches, workshops and consulting with individual clients. The universal cry? People are feeling scattered, and overwhelmed with demands and to-do’s. We plunge through our day like octopi—doing 8 things at once. Are we more productive? Actually, no...

We live in a fast-paced world filled with infinite possibilities and opportunities. Like

kids in a candy shop, we can easily feel overwhelmed choices on where we spend our time. What’s most important? How do we find time to get things done? How much can we handle? It is tempting to shove more in our day than is humanly possible, and discouraged at the end of the day when we barely got past the second item on our to-do list.    In an overstuffed schedule, we feel out of balance—where one area of our lives monopolizes our time at the expense of other more important things.

Throughout my 20 years as a time management coach , I’ve found that there are certain key skills that make the difference between a day that feels in balance vs. out of balance....