A spreadsheet works for me with regular checks to analyze progress. We need goals to keep us moving in the right direction. Some prefer a hardcopy calendar with different colored pens and symbols. My preference is an online calendar in which the user can request an audible alarm. Investing in a calendar allows us to record tasks, appointments, due dates, and whatever else stalking us. If time management is your nemeses, here are 11 ways to increase productivity: And we’re frustrated with ourselves for upsetting others. Our publishers are frustrated because we can’t meet deadlines.

Our families are disappointed because we’re always late. We’re on time with all we do, and we’re quick to tackle the next project.īut if we struggle with procrastination and lack the ability to stay productive, then we need tools. It falls in line with the way our brain works. If we’re disciplined and scheduled, time management is part of our daily routine. “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

“The problem with saving time is that as soon as we get it, we spend it.” “Hey, all you people who use emojis, what are you doing with the time you’ve saved?” Some offer a chuckle and others are sobering.

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Includes discussion questions for book groups.

Book length: approximately 96,000 words.

For fans of romantic suspense comes a heart-pounding thriller about loss, betrayal, and finding the strength to trust again. There's a far more sinister plot at play than they ever imagined, and innocent lives are in danger. Risa and Gage soon discover their cases might be connected as a string of high-value thefts have occurred at properties where security systems were installed by Carson's stepfather and children have gone missing. Special Agent Gage Patterson has been working a string of baby kidnappings, but he agrees to help look into Carson's background. Alarmed by Carson's inside knowledge of Trenton's death, Risa reaches out to her former partner at the FBI. On leave from the FBI, Risa returns to her former career as an English teacher at a local college, only to see her past and present collide when one of her students, Carson Mercury, turns in an assignment that reads like an eyewitness account of her brother's murder, with details never revealed publicly. When the long-awaited reunion between Risa and her brother, Trenton, ends in tragedy, Risa is riddled with guilt, unable to cope with the responsibility she feels over his death. She's never had reason to believe there's a target on her back. For the past five years, FBI Special Agent Risa Jacobs has worked in the violent crimes against children division of the Houston FBI.

Facing the Enemy by DiAnn Mills