Give yourself a time limit, say 15 minutes, and stick to it, then move on to your next mini-task.
"The intent is that there be a time limit," said Mr. Dodd, who has helped establish several online retail and marketing technology companies.
"There needs to be a time limit, and I think there needs to be a discussion of where is that time limit," said Woods, who has been penalized twice this season.
"The regional council failed to discuss the funding proposal within the time limit," said Settimo Pisano, the head of the event, which helped to launch successful playwrights such as Emma Dante and Ascanio Celestini.
Mr. Larson defended the time limit, saying that several errands on Main Street could be accomplished in less than 30 minutes, including obtaining a marriage license from the city's municipal building.
"We wanted to launch a specific initiative to address welfare recipients who were coming to the end of their five-year time limit," said Deborah Taylor, deputy director of the Protestant federation.
"Families who are needy don't stop being needy just because of some artificial time limit," said Marc Cohan, director of litigation for the Welfare Law Center, an advocacy group for the poor.
"Public announcements are usually pegged to a particular event or a particular situation and they usually have a duration or a time limit," said C. Edward Dickens, a spokesman for the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs in Washington.
It should also order the parties back to the negotiating table; set a time limit — say, one year — to the conclusion of the talks between them; outline a series of actions that the international community would immediately take to support the process; and, finally, declare what the international community would do should the parties fail to reach an agreement within the specified time period.
And if a partial party is seated, and it chooses to wait for the rest of the guests, it would not be out of line for a restaurant to consider a reasonable time limit, say 15 to 20 minutes, before suggesting that it would be best if the seated diners order.
