I’m not the only one; lots of people have told you to prioritize your tasks, projects, and goals, because it’s a direct, effective way to increase your level of productivity and success. But how many people have offered you any suggestions on exactly how to prioritize? No one has ever told me! Nevertheless, I’ve learned …
If you’ve ever toiled in a workshop – or watched someone else do it – you know the many benefits that come with keeping an orderly workplace: neat and clean, with everyday tools arranged for easy access. The relatively small effort required to prepare for your bread-and-butter activities greatly facilitates productivity and success whether you’re …
Stress is a killer. It’s a normal psychological and physiological reaction to difficulties, of course, that can be motivational and beneficial. But too much stress, enduring for too long a time, can produce headaches, pain, fatigue, mood swings, mental fogginess, sleep problems, even a weakened immune system, and worse. That’s why it’s important to understand …
You’re far from perfect. Unless you are clinically “narcissistic,” you probably recognize this and easily admit it. But you may not realize that overconfidence may be your most damaging fault of all. Overconfidence is sneaky, first because nearly everyone has some of it – yes, even those who suffer from low self-esteem and imposter syndrome. …
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As I’ve said many times, unless you’re a hermit you cannot prudently ignore the impact of other people on your productivity and success. That’s why you’re never done seeking out and maintaining strong relationships. A word that characterizes some of the strongest relationships is “rapport.” It refers to the condition in which people feel a …
I’ve previously mentioned how Edison rejected the idea that he’d ever failed to find a way to make an electric light bulb. Instead, he insisted he’d found 10,000 ways that wouldn’t work. While these 10,000 experiments were at least in some sense failures, they probably could not have been avoided, since Edison was operating in …
Even before I was first introduced to the idea of Biorythms, I recognized that my level of skills, intelligence, perception, and even physical strength would vary from day to day, sometimes from moment to moment. This awareness, now actively studied by scientists, makes it clear that our ability to function – and particularly to function …
There’s more to you than meets the eye. Whether you know it or not, you possess a wide range of skills, talents, and capabilities you can use to pump up your level of productivity and success. Since I don’t know you personally, I can’t tell you exactly what they may be. But I can give …
Your “Basic Choice” is the name I’ve given to the simple act of choosing what you’re going to do next. You make this Basic Choice every time you stop doing something, and start doing something else. For example: Are you going to continue reading this blog, or flick to something else? The next time you …
I remember when I watched a young couple in a San Francisco park enjoy their two-year-old daughter’s ability to climb up a couple of stairs and throw herself down a three-foot-long metal slide, over and over again. Back at my hotel room, I felt that same level of enjoyment as my then-25-year-old son described a …
