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A lot of the time, I write about specific techniques you can apply to increase your productivity and success. But this time, I want to focus on some important recognitions that I’d like you to incorporate into your everyday work and life, to improve your overall level of productivity and success. They include the following: […]

Many of us think emotions are entirely separate from our choices, our actions, our results, our productivity, and our success. But that’s not true. Research continues to show that emotions – both positive and negative – are an integral part of ourselves. They don’t drive us just to laugh or cry, love or fear. They

As I’ve written many times before, one necessity for increasing your productivity and success is the ability to work well with people. Your performance often depends on their performance in more ways than I care to count. So it’s always appropriate to consider ways to get people on your side, win their respect and loyalty,

In a previous post, I wrote about ways to start gaining more confidence. This time, I’d like to build on those ideas, for a simple reason: Just as lack of confidence tends to impair your performance, possessing an appropriate amount of confidence tends to improve your performance. And performance improvement is what we’re all about.

Improving your productivity and increasing your level of success naturally involves working at – or as close as you can get to – your level of peak performance. Obviously, you can’t expect to operate at your peak all the time. It’s just as obvious, however, that you can almost certainly learn to spend more of

Life is not a science experiment. You can’t run multiple trials and see which options and alternatives turn out best. In other words, you only go around once in life, which is why it’s important to think hard about the best choices you can make in your continuing effort to increase your productivity and success.

The advice is out there, and it’s well worth following: Avoid the jerks in both your work and your life. There are many reasons this makes sense. Chief among them, in my view and unfortunate experience, is that dealing with a jerk always ends badly. No matter how many times you are able to skirt

How often have you heard people say: “It’s better to be lucky than to be [something]…” take your choice of: smart, rich, good, or whatever. It’s a popular phrase precisely because there’s actually some truth to it. Luck plays a bigger role in productivity and success than most of us are willing to admit. Although

All else being equal, people prefer to work with, help, and follow people they like. Aside from all the other positives, that’s enough of a reason for you to try improving your likeability. Here are some relevant factors to work on: Avoid Mood Swings Among the most difficult people to like are those who blow

One of the underlying truths about productivity and success is this: they require a special effort. In most situations, it’s simply far easier to remain average rather than excel. In fact, functioning at a higher level of productivity and success not only requires you to do more than the average person, it usually requires you