It takes both, you know, to succeed. Too much action without thinking or planning and you’ll be “shooting from the hip,” acting impulsively, keeping busy doing something when maybe waiting for a better time or even doing nothing would lead to a
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Back in the day, when I first began paying attention to maximizing my productivity, I was meticulous about tracking my time, right down to the minute. At the end of each week (each day, each moment, if I wanted to), I knew
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Are you perfect yet? If not, you’ll be interested to learn the value of making – and tolerating – mistakes. You see, one of the biggest mistakes we make is thinking that we shouldn’t be making mistakes. Of course we should, because
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Few people would argue against the idea of striving to get better in your work and your life. But most of us conceive of making these improvements in large, perhaps even giant, steps. Don’t get me wrong: There are plenty of large
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In the midst of generating maximum productivity and success, as you probably are, you generally face an onslaught of vexing problems and marvelous opportunities, as well as exacting requirements and appealing options. Your days, and possibly nights, are chock full of tasks,
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I have a friend who loves and studies improv – the art of performing live, without a script! It can be very entertaining. One of the most important rules for this kind of performance is to accept everything another performer says or
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If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, in fact, even if you’re just the kind of person who reads this blog for a while, you probably have most things in your work and your life fairly well under control. Good
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Managing your expectations is important, primarily because the extent to which your work and your life match your expectations greatly influences your mood, your attitude, and your feelings of satisfaction and success. Experience shows that managing your expectations also impacts the objective
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I’ve written many times about the commonality – even the necessity, in some cases – of working with others (and I’ve given some suggestions here about how to do it well). This time I’d like to lay out some specific benefits (and
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You hear quite often that “hindsight is always 20/20.” By this, people mean that things are often obvious when looking backward, but not so clear when looking ahead. That’s mostly true, but it doesn’t automatically follow that looking backward has no value.
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