Extremes (3)

What was your longest period of time traveling away from home?

Time (5)

Clocks, watches, church bells, calendars, sundials, hourglasses, stopwatches, and metronomes all help us keep track of time. What is one interesting or unusual timekeeping device that you use or that you happen to see during your regular routine?

Time (4)

For a runner or a swimmer, the crucial difference between winning a race and claiming second place might be only a tenth of a second. What is one thing you do where acting quickly is essential?

Time (3)

How often do you find yourself rushing through tasks because you just don't have enough time to do a careful and thorough job?

Time (2)

How much of your daily life is controlled by time slots, periods of time, such as a work shift or a movie outing, when you've already decided what you are going to do? 

Time (1)

How many times a day do you check what time it is?

Your favorite things (1)

What is your favorite time of day?  What's special about that particular time of day?
What is your least favorite time of day?  What is it about that time of day that puts it at the bottom of your list?

Tell us a story: Not a moment to waste

When did you rush and scramble to try to meet a deadline, only to find out that you had plenty of time because the deadline was later than you thought?

Sleeping in

How much later than usual do you sleep on your days off?

Tell us a story: lucky timing

Tell us about a case of highly unlikely perfect timing -- a time when something or someone came along with just what you needed at that moment to reach a goal, overcome an obstacle, or get out of trouble. What was the situation, and who or what showed up at just the right time?

Wisdom check

Are you wiser today than you were five years ago?  If you are, what's a recent example of something you did differently as a result of your greater wisdom?  If you are not any wiser, what could you do differently in order to gain wisdom from your new life experiences?

Food (4)

When you have a little extra time and you're not in a hurry, does that change your eating habits?  Do you eat different things, or eat at different places, when time pressure isn't a factor? 

Values

Valuing something means treating it as important. The way we measure our values is by seeing what we actually do when two different things are in conflict and we have to choose one or the other.

What are some of the things that you make sure to get done even when you "don't have time for anything"?  

This week's theme is values.

Day of sevens

Where were you five years ago, on 7/7/07?  What was going on in your life on and around that date?  When you look back at that time, what is one thing that seemed important then and seems less important now? 

Worth getting up early

Setting out on a long trip is one reason to wake up unusually early.  And of course emergencies can interrupt your sleep at any point.  What else sometimes prompts you to set the alarm clock for a much earlier hour than usual?

Fast and slow

In music, you can ruin the beauty of a piece just by playing it too slow or too fast. The same principle applies in ordinary life: our day suffers when we try to move ahead at the wrong tempo. How does the pace of your life feel right now: is it about right, too fast, or too slow?

This week's theme is fast and slow.

Tell us a story: on the early side

When did you make a mistake about the starting time of an event and arrive far too early?

Or when did you overdo it in showing up early to beat the crowd, when it turned out there really was no crowd to beat?

An extra day

Leap Day is an "extra" day added to the end of February. Did you do anything special with your extra day — or did it somehow fill up before you got your hands on it?

If you had a truly extra day, free to use however you chose, what's something you might do with it?

This week's theme is Leap Day.

After-hours menu

How often do you have a late-night snack? When you do, what's the food you're most likely to choose?

Tell us a story: Sunday crisis

In the United States, Sunday is the worst time to have something go wrong, because the people and businesses that fix things — doctors, plumbers, auto mechanics, and so on — generally aren't available on Sunday. What was one urgent problem that you had to sit with longer than you wanted to because it happened on a Sunday (or some other time when everything was closed)?