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  • An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day

    Published December 14, 2012

    Managing our time needs to become a ritual, too. Not simply a list or a vague sense of our priorities. That's not consistent or deliberate. It needs to be an ongoing process we follow no matter what to keep us focused on our priorities throughout the day.

  • Take Your Life Back

    Published December 07, 2012

    I moved from an outside office to a home office because I wanted to spend more time with my family. But now I’m always in my home office.

  • If You're Too Busy to Meditate, Read This

    Published December 03, 2012

    Research shows that an ability to resist urges will improve your relationships, increase your dependability, and raise your performance.

  • Arguing Is Pointless

    Published November 08, 2012

    It was lunchtime and the seven of us — two kids and five adults — would be in the car for the next three hours as we drove from New York City to upstate Connecticut for the weekend.

  • How to Fly Over Recessionary Obstacles

    Published October 18, 2012

    Right now, focusing on the present business environment will cause businesses to fly over their handlebars. This is not the time to look at the present. It's the time to look ten feet, or ten months, ahead.

  • How to Get a Raise When Budgets Are Tight

    Published October 12, 2012

    The idea of immediate results is alluring. Almost all of advertising is built on the notion that if you just buy this (whatever it is), then you'll instantly have love, success, and power.

  • How to Respond to Negativity

    Published October 05, 2012

     Countering someone's negativity with your positivity doesn't work because it's argumentative.

  • Restore Yourself to Your Factory Default Settings

    Published September 28, 2012

    Unplugging and stopping everything for a minute might be a pretty good solution for whenever things aren't working in life.

  • Working with People You Don't Like

    Published September 21, 2012

    The typical advice you hear about working with people you don't like is simply to depersonalize the relationship. Just transact whatever business you need to with them and move on. In other words: Grin and bear it. But I have found that almost impossible to do

  • The Right Way to Speak to Yourself

    Published September 13, 2012

    We've all heard the notion that we're our own harshest critic. But shouldn't we treat ourselves with at least the same respect shown by a first grade teacher toward her students? Why don't we?