Productivity

Getting Results Takes Time

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. – Douglas Hofstader People often ask what they’re doing wrong when they’re not getting the results they want. They usually haven’t considered that it’s not their work that they’re doing wrong, but rather the goals they’ve set that’s [...]

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How to Limit The Busyness In Your Business

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Ever notice that the thing you most want to do in your business is the thing that’s the hardest to find time to do? It’s easy for the busyness of business to take over and make it such that every day, it seems like you’re getting further and further from the core of your [...]

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Just Get It Done

There comes a time in the midst of busy lives and business where you just have to knuckle down and plow through some of the projects on your plate. Perhaps it would be better if someone else did it. Perhaps there is a smarter way to get it done. Perhaps your resistance to it is [...]

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Addicted to the Pulse

So many of us are addicted to the pulse. We’re either actively engaged in monitoring all the social media hubs or we’re wondering if something’s happened there. We don’t really want to spend a lot of time on the cell phone, but we carry it around with us religiously just in case something happens. We [...]

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Why Working From Your Email Inbox Doesn’t Work

Many people work from their email inbox, but it doesn’t really work. This article addresses why it doesn’t work and provides a couple of alternatives.

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How To Drive Your Professional Development With A Self-Directed Learning Program

Being a peak performer often requires you to design your own learning program. Cath Duncan shows how to put that plan together.

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How to Use Social Media Sanely

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. We—the bloggers, blog readers, twitterers, people who spend a lot of time on social media—are growing up. Our relationship with social media is maturing. In the beginning, we just played around and drank it all up. But more and more of [...]

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What’s Your “Reason Why”?

[If you're reading this via email or RSS, you may need to click through to watch the video.] People often ask the question “what do I need to do to start this new project or habit?” That’s often the wrong the question. The more informative one is “why do I want to start?” The how-to [...]

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How To Write Brief Emails Without Being A Jerk

“I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” – Mark Twain At a certain point, you won’t be able to process email the way you used to. I want to be very clear that it’s not a matter of choice – you really won’t be able to [...]

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