Some new friends have been raving about The Five-Minute Journal. Five minutes a day to improve your life: accomplishing more and feeling better, too. Oz watches over my journal. Being a cat, he’s asleep on the job. Having kept a journal for a very long time, I set out to investigate. It turns out that… Continue Reading
How about a little less distraction and a lot more focus? In a world where you can open a new browser tab at a moment’s notice to look up anything under the sun, it’s easy to end up reading about random things. This doesn’t help with the current task at hand. Enter Momentum Dashboard for… Continue Reading
The end of the year is a great time to look back over the last year and also forward to the next one. Or… really any time is a good time to make a plan if you don’t have one yet. Where to go from here? People who have written goals are so much more… Continue Reading
Can’t do a thing? So much to do that it’s too hard to figure out what to do next? Here’s a simple fix: do a little something. (I know: simple. But—effective.) Here’s the thing: Progress begets progress. Scott Belsky Behance When I first saw this, I posted it on my office whiteboard. Taking steps in… Continue Reading
Walking along not long ago, listening to Beyond the To Do List, I heard a productivity quote worth sharing. Here it is for you… Productivity is a combination of how you manage your time, your energy, and your attention. Chris Bailey Life of Productivity In all the talk about time management, this short quote says… Continue Reading
I know someone who is constantly in trouble because she means to do something, but then she doesn’t get around to actually doing it. Sunny Idea, But Then… Nothing People get upset with her. But she believes there’s no problem, because she is so optimistic that she’ll follow through. You might know someone like this.… Continue Reading
So… it was the exact time for writing the next post. Suddenly, here came The Procrastinators: email, Facebook, the news, YouTube, and that game with the bubbles. (The Procrastinators take many forms, these were just today’s temptations.) Up until this point in the day I was doing great with getting things done. But unscheduled disappearance… Continue Reading
We all have days when it’s hard to get things done. Lack of sleep. Bad boss. Critical co-worker. Disappointing project. Relationship blues. The news. Or just feeling “off.” This is where self-regulation comes in, which is all about aligning your… Thoughts Behaviors Feelings …in a constructive way to take what might have been a wasted… Continue Reading
How about we…. Hire the best and the brightest people we can find to work in our company and then… …tell the vast majority of them that they are “Just Okay” Hire the Best & Brightest & Then Help Them to Flourish That’s what happens when companies evaluate employees using “stack ranking,” a system that… Continue Reading
Oh wait! This title is bad feedback all by itself. We’ve all experienced it. Let’s see if we can fix that… Two truths about improving performance: In many cases, giving good feedback might be just what’s needed. Giving good feedback is much harder than it sounds. It’s Not All About What’s Broken Note: Vague feedback… Continue Reading
