How to Organize Your Work & Your LifeGet What You Want from The Other Person
You won’t need these techniques with friends, because you’ll have enough shared background and “friendship equity in the relationship bank” to simply ask for what you want. You won’t need them in a formal presentation, either, because you’ll (hopefully) have enough hard-hitting…
Benefits You Can Expect from Boosting Your Effectiveness
You need motivation to make changes. And nothing is more motivating than a specific look at the details of what you can hope to gain. Here's a chance to give yourself that look right now.To do so, just start a personal journal.…
Career Development Boosters
Whether you’re working for yourself or others, there are certain factors that you should deliberately and steadily work to improve as a way to boost your career prospects. Here’s a brief rundown of each one: Basic Skills The road to success is…
Advance Your Career
Whether you’re working for a large company, a small company, or your own company, your career is a living project that deserves your focused attention and best energies. Here are some suggestions to help you advance your career to the maximum: 1.…
Know When to Work on Each of Your Agenda Items
One young woman I know has a career, a family, and an itch to go back to school. Between all three, she has dozens of “important” projects and activities all clamoring for her attention and interest. Before she can even finish one…
Start Setting Goals You Actually Want to Achieve
To be honest, I am not personally concerned with your particular goals. However, you most certainly must be. In fact, the specifics of the goals you set for yourself determine in great measure your accomplishments, your achievements, and ultimately, your happiness. You…
Welcome Back to the Struggle
Since first published in 1981, How to Organize Your Work and Your Life has been very well received year after year. But life in the modern world has a way of changing rapidly, and the book originally written at the beginning of…