When I got more focused on my time and put some boundaries around how I spent it, my productivity went through the roof and revenues followed.
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Reflecting on my time in Tokyo, it seems to me that now is a time of profound choices for Japanese workers, and particularly the Generation Y of Japan.
"I hope my memoirs will provide a serious and thoughtful, but also entertaining, reflection on my time as a Member of Parliament and as Prime Minister, " said Blair.
While I greatly valued the opportunity to work at such an impactful organization and I look back fondly on my time there, I knew in my heart of hearts that it was time for me to start a new career chapter.
My art business depends on my spending time at my drafting table working.
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Early on in my time as a parliamentarian, I met a range of colleagues to ask what their tips were for a new MP.
As a freelance writer and musician, I generally have more leisure on my hands than do my time-card-punching contemporaries, and have thus heard my name called as a "single" more times than I'd care to admit.
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Now I will say to some of my friends on my side, we should be examining -- and I have been in the minority on my side from time to time and talking about curtailing the reach of private lawsuits.
As an avid reader of the late Harvey Penick's sage instruction books, I also determined to spend most of my practice time working on my short game and putting.
So anyway, I served my time, and since the sentencing judge took mercy on me, I served my time at the minimum-security prison up at Holyoke.
Certainly, I'll be involved in it and I'll understand what's going on, but I'm going to spend much more of my time on defense.
Setting aside the farmers' vaunted place in American politics and social history (and I'm biased here--my father grew up on a farm and I spent my fair share of time on one), this has been a very good trend for America, and the world.
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My wife often jokes that if I spent the same amount of time on my career as I spend on the school we could afford to send all our children to Eton.
But one thing I do not do is waste my time on silly Internet poll sites.
Alone again but determined not to be, I embarked on my quest, this time with a plan.
My time on the elliptical trainer became a chance to read for 30 minutes 3 times a week.
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Which has forced me to make strategic choices about what to spend my time on and what to ignore.
Fast forward a few more years, I reported on Mandela occasionally during my time as a correspondent at CNN London's bureau.
During my time on staff with Neighborhood, I was asked to read a book called With Justice for All by Dr. John Perkins.
I'd taken the dog for a walk that morning and I felt like something was pressing down hard on my shoulders all the time.
If I'd had more time on my hands I'd only have come up with more bright ideas of what we could do with the dish.
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It was a sincere vote based on my assessment at the time and what I believed he would do with the authority he was given.
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My skis arrived right on time, so all I had to do was vacate my stool for a few minutes while he went over my options.
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"From the early 1960s until 1967, I spent tons of time on my hair, " she says, noting her mod hairdo in the picture is actually a wig.
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The picture of the rocks in the bucket has stuck with me, and I think about it each day as I focus my time on the big rocks.
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Also, during my time on this job, my vehicle was stolen, along with all of the sensitive patient information I carried in the form of hard copies and on my computer.
More than 99 percent of my time on this issue is consumed by the difficult task of trying to convince policy makers that tax competition, fiscal sovereignty, and financial privacy should be celebrated rather than persecuted.
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