Set aside time and money for a vacation, and guard it like gold, Thomas advises.
Do you and your partners set aside time for planning, or will you in 2013?
The government, he said, should "recognise this" and set aside time for a debate, on an "votable motion".
Once you pick your subject and set aside time to shoot the story, you need to make compelling images to draw in the viewer.
Even if you dazzle them with brightly-colored workspaces, engage their inner child with games, or set aside time to think, your employees will not innovate.
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Another approach is to set aside time during a meeting to set ground rules, says Dana Brownlee, founder of Professionalism Matters, a corporate-training company in Atlanta.
There is a concerted effort for Administration officials (myself included) to set aside time to meet with citizens and community leaders whenever we are travelling around the country.
Last year, I vowed that I would set aside time to start working on it, but I failed to follow through, too often allowing myself to get distracted by other obligations, both large and small.
The Lords have set aside time to consider the Commons verdict on their amendments to the European Union Bill (see Monday above) and the too-ing and fro-ing between the two houses could go on for quite some time.
While observances and timing vary considerably based on different crops, climates, religions, and histories, the common thread is that we should set aside time to thank a higher power or nature for providing us with another year of sustenance.
If, say, your spouse always loses it at the end of the day the house is a mess, everyone is tired then set aside time (preferably after a good night's sleep) to discuss both of your needs, frustrations, and solutions for how to make things smoother.
The higher we are fortunate to climb in our careers, the more critical it becomes to set aside time for thinking about the key challenges and opportunities facing the organizations we are privileged to lead, as well as the ways in which we can personally improve as leaders.
The point is, there are (another comment on my profile picture) a lot of distractions (Facebook message going into further detail about previous text regarding laptop) to contend with when trying to set aside time for any work that requires deeper thought than snapping off email replies. (Posting new chart on I Love Charts).
If you are one of those hearty souls who fill out their own tax returns, set aside more time.
If you can't set aside that much time at once, remember that shorter bursts of activity count, too.
Set aside a little time each day to question all the assumptions both explicit and, more importantly, implicit that underlie your business model.
The Scottish Greens have set aside their allotted parliamentary time on Wednesday to hold the debate.
Having some time set aside on a regular basis takes the pressure off touchy financial topics since you can always revisit them the next week.
"When you are looking at your final options, you want to set aside, for the time being, the emotional content and analyze things rationally, " says Anne Sturtevant, executive director of higher education at the College Board, provider of the SAT and Advanced Placement Program.
She repeated accusations that the government had set aside an inadequate amount of time for scrutiny of the bill.
Or set aside a certain amount of time each day (e.g. 20 minutes) to attack email, slash-and-burn your way through it.
This is a good time to set aside differences at work.
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Citizens United, at its core, concerned a law that set aside a brief period of time (shortly before elections) when corporations could not fund political commercials.
"When the economy is doing well, we tell people it's time to set aside some money for something they may not have thought about, " explains William Rowe, a polished former funeral home owner who joined Stewart in 1987 and is now chief operating officer.
As the proverb says, a journey starts with a single step so begin with the pile closest to you and just set aside one hour at a time to go through each piece of paper and decide immediately whether you will recycle it, toss it, delegate it, file it or deal with it right away or later.
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And you have to set aside a pretty substantial chunk of time.
India and China have agreed to set aside their border dispute for the time being and to get on with normalising economic and cultural ties.
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