It’s really all about people. Your ability to relate to people is not only instrumental in determining the scope and quality of your connections, but it’s also critical to feeling good about yourself and maintaining a high level of success in your work and your life. And that ability, in turn, depends largely on your …
There was a Seinfeld episode in which Jerry’s dad was working at a job Jerry opposed. To get him fired, the plan was to schedule lots of late afternoon meetings, because the old man would naturally be tired by that time of day and look bad in front of the boss. It was funny, but …
There’s a lot written about goal setting, and about exhorting you to set more of them. But there’s not enough said about evaluating how much benefit you’re getting from the goals you actually do set. That’s a problem, because setting goals – and even achieving those goals – may or may not pay off in …
High levels of achievement are the highway to productivity and success. The more often you can attain HLA (high levels of achievement), and the longer you can sustain them, the faster you will arrive at the goals you have set for your work and your life. But you can’t cruise the HLA highway without the …
Except for a few adrenaline junkies and chaos creators who are disinclined to solve their problems, most of us don’t like stress. At a minimum, it comes with unpleasant feelings and can easily contribute to health problems. But it’s pretty much impossible to avoid all stress in our work and our lives. Fortunately, there are …
We like to think that our cognitive processes and rational thinking guide our everyday actions. That may be true. But it’s a mistake to discount the emotional components that also drive our actions, choices, and decisions. That’s why it’s important not only to recognize and credit our emotions – and those of other people, of …
Who among us has not sat through a job interview and been asked the standard question: “Where do you see yourself in five years?“ OK. Good question. But what I’m also asking is: “Why should you answer it only for others in a job interview? Why not answer it for yourself? And even better, why …
In my last post on Gear Up for Success – Part 2, I included a suggestion that you “Stretch Your Time Horizon.” As you may remember, I wrote: “… the farther out you are looking, planning, and working, the more likely you’ll find the right way to set things up and do the work needed …
As I wrote last time, in a perfect world, you’d get all the success you deserve without any struggle. You’d do your thing. The world would reward you commensurately. Tomorrow you’d wake up and do more of the same. But it happens we’re in a world where obstacles abound, where a great many successes require …
In a perfect world, you’d get all the success you deserve without any struggle. You’d do your thing. The world would reward you commensurately. Tomorrow you’d wake up and do more of the same. But it happens we’re in a world where obstacles abound, where a great many successes require more than natural talent and …
