Smart Phones, Texting and email have made our lives feel much more urgent.  How can you find time to learn a new skill, practice an old one or study a complex problem when your phone is tweeting about the next crisis?  How does anyone find time to write an article let alone a book?  The answer of course is in discipline and strategy.

The strategy is to find blocks of time and keep them for important projects and discipline is to ignore the distractions when they occur.  Easy to say and even harder to do in this real time world.

Don’t spend all of your time cleaning the kitchen…especially if you’re the cook.