What Vigilance Leads to Success
How are you feeling? Our sense of well-being, of feeling good is critical to our success. When we feel bad, the solutions we most need …
effectiveness
Too Much Email, Too Many Meetings
Meetings and emails can certainly overwhelm us. Each one represents another request–or twelve!–to do something. How can this keep going? How can we possibly get …
Leadership, Sales, and Influence Mastery
We can always learn useful, respectful, and effective ways to lead, sell, and influence. And, with effort, we will succeed. We have an opportunity, though, …
Some Call This Leadership
We can wait around for it. We can bemoan how the people in charge aren’t doing anything about it. We can fight to make everybody …
Flow
Author Michael Pollan describes so well how most of us feel about tasks, goals, and getting stuff done. He says, “My native tense is the …
Due Dates Can Be Killing Our Effectiveness
So that we don’t let a task to fall off of our radar, we mark it with a date. We read an email or look at …
Addicted to “How”?
We have somehow come to believe that we must vigilantly think about how all manner of things will unfold. We imagine that bad things will …
Get More Done By Dropping the “Have Tos”
Saying “no” also means no longer doing things because we have to. Notice the kinds of things we say we have to do. Chores. Meetings. …
This Makes It Easier To Say “No” To Tasks
To get on top of all our tasks, we must get good at saying, “No.” “No” to the busy work, the low-value work, the “well, …
We Need a Different Name
I need a favor. And I think you can help. For almost 3 years, I have been calling it– that set of habits and lists …