1. Time Management and Family Life or Work Life Satisfaction Anne Condon U. British Columbia

2. Guiding principle: know yourself what’s really important for you to do over the next few years? what’s important to those you care about? what do you love to do?

3. Using time effectively creating and maintaining a strong research program takes lots of focus much of your research time may be devoted to your students there will be many distracting chores!

4. Using time effectively: build a great team everyone is different! be prepared to adapt set clear expectations and provide feedback (preparing for meetings, managing deadlines, etc.) prepare to ensure meetings are productive respond promptly to others’ needs (letters of reference, award nominations, writing feedback..) foster peer support celebrate successes when things go wrong: act promptly; seek advice, support from mentors

5. Using time effectively: manage the chores in service tasks, focus on ways that YOU can make a difference a strategy for learning to say "no”: say "let me think about it”; then assess and consult beware of wanting to please, CV padding when you do say "yes", be clear up front about the scope of the job and the level of commitment you can bring

6. Using time effectively: my favorite strategies set aside concentrated periods for the important stuff to use short time chunks effectively: when leaving a task, make a note about what exactly you’ll do when picking it back up downtime is good

7. it’s possible - and very rewarding - to have a great family life and a great career Family time

9. find a caregiver you really trust, especially during the early years learn the benefits of parallel processing (oversee kid homework crises while cooking) foster kids' independence in daily tasks share responsibility around the house figure out which things can "give" - no need for perfection!

10. On balance some things we spend time on are very fullfulling, others are draining – there has to be at least as much of the former as the latter we can do everything we want in life, but not all at the same time

11. “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” Leonard Bernstein