There are two ways to live your life: you can drive it, or be driven. Today, I’m not talking about driving your life in a grand, spiritual sense, but in a micro-sense. You can never replace time. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. You can never get it back....
A reader wrote in: I read your suggestion about the 3×5 pad and it sucks! That's because I hate paper and pen note-taking. I want something that I can carry with me anywhere on my handheld and which will also prompt me, just like a personal assistant, not something...
If you want to produce extremely high-quality work, it may be wise to find someone to help. It's hard to be objective about our own work. Almost by definition, we believe if we did it, it must be good. But yet, sometimes an objective eye can help us take our good work...
When that lone customer arrives at your restaurant on a busy night, it's tempting to make him or her wait, in favor of the party of 12 that's sure to rack up a huge bill. But it just might not be wise. When you're deciding how to structure your business, who to give...
When you've made real commitments that add up to 100%+ of the time/mental energy you have available, how do you deal with it? I'm in that situation at the moment and find myself debating whether to concentrate on one thing, get it done (while other things fall by the...
One of the most important things that I've learned is that you can only be up to 100% efficient - you can't get 25 hours of work done in a day. How do you know when you're at the point of diminishing returns? We all want to believe we can add one more thing to our...
Wow! Today's a day full of media love. An article about my book and personal productivity is featured in Investors Business Daily. A guest blog post by me is featured in the Downtown Women's Club.
Hi! For my book, I would like to gather a set of beliefs that govern how people operate in organizations. I'm especially looking for beliefs that really drive people's behavior, decision-making, etc. Contradictions and alternate viewpoints welcome and encouraged. For...
As you know from listening to my podcast, I keep my TO DO list on paper. It keeps me honest about keeping it a reasonable length, and ruthless pruning items that I'm never going to do. But even so, my list has far more items on it than I can do in any given day. So...
Sometimes working long hours isn’t even productive in the short term. Before pushing yourself hard, know what that does to your results and thinking ability. It may be best to go out and party instead.