Mailstrom App Offers Legit Inbox Zero Control
I tend to get about 100 messages a day. That’s down from about 300 before I started actively managing my inbox. In a fairly recent column in the magazine, I wrote about both SaneBox and Unroll.me and...
View Article8 Ways Successful People Stretch Their Comfort Zones
Everyone has a so-called “comfort zone.” You know what I’m talking about: that mental space you live in where there are boundaries and you feel a sense of emotional security with your work and your...
View Article4 Reasons You Should Love Hearing ‘No’
“You can achieve virtually anything you want–if you’re willing to hear ‘no’ often enough,” says Andrea Waltz, co-author of Go for No! Most people, she says, live in a “Go for Yes” world. “They do...
View Article9 Ways to Help Your Significant Other be Successful
Books and blog posts from thought leaders like Sheryl Sandberg and Inc. columnist Carrie Kerpen have triggered many a party conversation about the roles of husbands and wives as contributors to family...
View Article8 Ways to Leave Work… at Work
In a recent survey of more than 4,000 business executives conducted by Accenture, work-life balance was the key factor for more than half of men and women in determining a successful career. Work-life...
View Article9 Beliefs of Remarkably Happy People
Many people think happiness, both professional and personal, is based on having: bigger house, nicer car, larger income. Better, faster, higher, more. Yet the happiest people I know focus a lot more on...
View ArticleLeave Your iPad at Home: The What-Not-to-Bring Summer Vacation Check-List
It’s time for a little summer R&R. You’ve got the bathing suit packed, the resort booked and visions of Cabo’s beaches on the brain. Sounds dreamy, no? Fast forward and what you’re really doing is...
View ArticleCEO Survival Guide: 30 Days to a Better Life
I was asked by an MBA class recently what my top 5 recommendations I would make to business owners, CEOs, and new entrepreneurs. I exclusively work with this type of executive, so whittling it down to...
View ArticleSunday is My Day of Work…Not Rest!
If you’re like me and you run your own business you may be up early checking in on what’s going on; whether you’ve got an office full of cubicles or you’re looking at last night’s restaurant earnings....
View ArticleProductivity Is About More Than Task-Fulfilment
Almost everywhere you look there’s a tendency to frame “productivity” in terms of “task-fulfillment.” No wonder David Allen’s Getting Things Done has been a bible of work-life management since its...
View Article5 Things CEOs Can’t Delegate
There is such a push for leaders to delegate to their subordinates that it would be understandable for a business owner or CEO would think her job IS delegating. Maybe if you’re Larry Ellison or Jeff...
View ArticleThe Hidden Truth Behind Procrastination
What have you been procrastinating about lately? Can you list 10 things? These are two important questions posed on my client in-take questionnaire. About 90 percent of the responses include at least...
View ArticleThe Secret to Improving Accountability
Nothing is more frustrating in a work environment then when things fall through the cracks. Most of the time, it’s not intentional. At the rate that business moves today, people are often overloaded...
View Article10 Tips for Improving Your Memory
Yesterday I was readying myself to sit down and write this column, and I completely forgot what subject I had planned. I laughed out loud when I found my notes and saw the title. Perhaps I couldn’t...
View ArticleAdd More Hours to Your Day (No, Really)
How many times a day would you say you’re distracted from your work? Five? Ten? Any idea how costly these distractions really are? A 2007 study by Basex estimated that distractions cost U.S. businesses...
View ArticleHow to Keep Focused on Your Priorities Each Week
As a social media entrepreneur and author, I get contacted by dozens of people each week who want my help or want to work with me. I put myself out there, and since responsiveness is one of my personal...
View Article5 Steps to Better Sales
I follow Tim Ferriss’, author of “The Four Hour Work Week” and other books about hacking life. That’s what Tim calls it, hacking. The term, loosely based on breaking into software codes, refers to...
View Article6 Steps to Complete A Major Project
My first book, Laddering, began shipping last week and along with it have come questions from my colleagues about “how I did it”–that is, how I juggled writing a book with running a business and all of...
View ArticleHow to Double Your Business and Take a Day Off Every Week
A CEO I know well set off on a transformational business-life journey about a year ago. She wanted to double her business and at the same time work one less day per week. That’s right, work four days...
View ArticleTime For a Digital Detox?
Here’s how obsessed people are with their mobile phones: According to Time, 68 percent of users take their devices to bed with them, 20 percent check their phones every 10 minutes, and one third report...
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