Back in late February I blogged about becoming more productive and tracking how I spend my time during the work day. It has been a great help, and since becoming methodical about the process I have seen a great boost in my productivity.

In March I began scheduling my time in advance, which was stage two. Obviously, I failed to schedule any time in March to blog about stage two so I wasn’t as successful as I would have liked to have been, but it was a start.

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There’s an old exercise in logic that goes a little something like this: Imagine you flip a coin 100 times in a row and on each one of those flips the coin turns up heads. What are the odds that the coin will land on heads on the one hundred and first flip?

The logical answer is 50%, but our instinct takes over and we look for the reason why it came up heads 100 times in a row and wager that it will be heads again. Is the coin heavier on one side? Is it a two-headed coin? Is it rigged in some other way?

So, when we go out to watch live music in Texas and see that the audience is evenly split between male and female, when we look at who is buying Texas music and see that it’s evenly split between male and female, and when we look at the people working in the Texas music industry and see that even there, if not quite equally split, women are well represented, we can’t help but look up at the stages of Texas’s dancehalls and honky-tonks and wonder where the female artists are.

Moving into an extremely busy time of the year with two dozen balls in the air, I have focused on increasing my productivity. If I can squeeze an extra hour out of the day as a result of being more efficient, that’s 6 extra hours a week. If I work 50 weeks in a year, that’s 300 extra hours. That’s the equivalent of accomplishing an entire extra month of work in a year. That’s pretty powerful, especially considering that right now I’d settle for an extra 15 minutes.

A search on flickr for Gruene Hall today yielded 2,597 results. A Google image search returned almost 140,000. A lot of those pictures are largely the same, but photographers over the past few days have had an entirely new kind of photo opportunity at Gruene Hall – remodeling.