Planning your summer vacation? It's Memorial Day Weekend and the unofficial start of summer. What are your plans? Have you decided where you are going to spend those days or weeks off? Maybe you've elected to take every Friday off between now and Labor Day so you can get long weekends in and do a …
time management
52% is a success!
You know you have had a successful vacation when you look at your iPad on the last day and the battery reads 52%. It’s not hard to do when you have a view like this for a week! I have written about taking time on your vacation to do the absolute minimum, but not completely walk away from your …
How to know if you are on the right track!
Should you get on this train or not? Do you know the general direction you are heading? When you plan for the future, at what point do you actually start moving towards it? Closer to, or farther from? If you wonder where the train metaphors are coming from, I just came back from a meeting in Europe. …
How do I get to Someday Isle?
We all know that person. Every time we talk to them, we hear their future dreams. Someday I’ll buy that property. That convertible will be mine someday. If my boss continues to do that someday I’ll just quit and start my own business. Hopefully it’s someone you know, and not yourself. That person …
Common theme to time management
The morning to-do list! You’ve re-written it four times this week, and its only Wednesday. You’ve carried over some of these tasks for days on end, and they haven’t been completed. There is only so much time in a day, and you are struggling to get everything done. We look at the calendar, and we are …
Tips to a Stress Free Vacation!
Ahhh … It’s Summer time. Time for long weekends and even longer vacations! Ugh ... That means if I don’t get all this stuff done before I leave, I’ll have even a bigger pile on when I get back. The dilemma, get it done now or next week. Your colleagues need it now, your company needs it now, and …
Just Shut Up and Jump!
Are you waiting for the perfect moment to launch? Does the thought of starting something right now scare the heck out of you? Whatever it is you are thinking about doing. Whether it's launching a new product, trying a new system, or changing a bad habit, are you using perfectionism as an …
How to benefit, by postponing pleasure
Are you the type that wants it NOW? Can't wait for Christmas morning, so you open up just "one" on Christmas Eve? Maybe you're a live for the moment, or only live once type of person. Why delay gratification? Most of us have heard about the study by Stanford Professor, Walter Mischel. He …
Billionaires Share this One Thing in Common
67% of today’s billionaires have earned their first billion in one generation! Of the current Forbes 400 list, 228 of them started either poor or middle class. They didn't inherit businesses or anyone else's fortune. (Forbes) When people ask if the American Dream is still possible - I …
Time Saving Tips! – Guaranteed
You are at the airport, and you pull out your phone to check and see if anything important is in your email. You’re standing in a long-line at the Grocery store and you review your mail really quick. Sitting in a movie theatre before the show starts, you pull out your phone and you check again. You …