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Convey Heat with Your Light
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time and energy conversing with other people. Often, you initiate the conversation because there’s something you…
Balancing Mental and Physical Activity
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…
Allocating Your Energy
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…
Tolerating Mistakes
Are you perfect yet? If not, you’ll be interested to learn the value of making – and tolerating – mistakes. You see, one of the…
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
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…
Take Yourself in Hand
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…
The Power of Positivity
I have a friend who loves and studies improv – the art of performing live, without a script! It can be very entertaining. One of…
When Things Go South
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…
Managing Expectations
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,…
The Power of Group-Work
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…
Look Backward to Move Forward
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…
Add Passion to Your Productivity
Almost everyone agrees with the simple idea that passion is important. So I don’t have to justify diving into the process of supplementing your efforts…