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Elements of Empathy
A key aspect of increasing your level of productivity and success is your ability to work well with other people. Central to that is your…
Know Your Competence Silos
As you know, I’m intensely interested in productivity and success, and in finding ways to boost them both. So I was intrigued to come across…
Loving Your Inner Critic
“You didn’t do that very well, did you?” “You made the wrong choice.” “That was stupid.” We’ve all heard critical comments like these directed at…
Time For an Update
As I’ve written many times before, pretty much the only constant these days is change. And when change happens, nearly always the appropriate response is…
Back Off That Measurement Fetish
As I’ve written recently, I spent many years tracking the time on spent on each of my daily, weekly, and monthly projects. That served me…
Empathy Promotes Productivity
I’ve written often about the need for and benefit of working well with others. This time around, I’d like to revisit this topic from a…
Avoid These Common Failures
I’ve written several times before about failure, including its inevitability: “Have you ever known anyone who never experienced failure?” I wrote. “Of course not. We…
Variations on Traditional Mentoring
We’ve all heard of mentoring and the value it can bring to a person’s level of productivity and success, as well as to their short-,…
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…