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Atomic Habits Offers Accessible Bite-Sized Tips
Habits. We want to create and maintain good ones, and stop or limit bad ones. For most people, during difficult times, habits provide the necessary structure and relieve stress. Perhaps you’re continuing to work from home. Maybe you’re returning to the office fully...
Create Meta Decisions to Help Boost Productivity
A meta decision is a global rule or policy that you create to help you be more productive. Here are 5 examples that have worked well for me and that I often pass onto clients who adopt them for themselves. One page of emails in inbox at a time (if you have to scroll...
Now Is the Perfect Time to Foster a Growth Mindset — Introducing my new UC Davis Course (that you can access for free!)
It takes a lot of positive thinking and proactive productivity these days to stay on top of all of your responsibilities for your family, work, and life, in addition to navigating this strange situation we all find ourselves in. One thing that can absolutely help you...
Video: We Are All a Work In Progress: The Wisdom & Freedom of Creating a Not-To-Do List!
I had the pleasure of joining my writer pal Jennifer Klepper a few weeks ago for her WIPMondays video series on Instagram, which stands for Work in Progress (because we are all a work in progress!). We chatted about productivity, and specifically creating a Not-To-Do...
Express Gratitude… and When That Doesn’t Cut it, Try a Five Minute Pity Party!
It’s no secret that expressing gratitude is good for us. According to Harvard Health, gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. The way we verbally frame our...
Video Tip: Use Your Internal “Antenna” to Help Train Your Brain to Look for Positive Messages
We are living in some chaotic times, which makes it especially challenging to stay positive. But that is exactly when you need it the most. Enter your Reticular Activating System (RAS), a part of your brain that brings whatever you are focusing on to the forefront of...
Is Work From Home a Pandemic Fad or Will It Have Lasting Impact?
I was featured in the September issue of Comstock’s magazine in an article by Jeff Wisler about working remotely from home, as so many of us are doing these days. It examines what the future of working from home will look like -- whether this is just a pandemic fad,...
Video Tip: The No Negative Self Talk Rule! Don’t Let Your Biggest Enemy Live Between Your Ears
In this quick video, I share one of the rules I ask all of my clients to follow -- the No Negative Self Talk Rule. Language is powerful and you need to make sure that the messages you send to yourself aren't always deflating ones. Learn to rephrase your language to...
Video Tip – Want to Be More Focused & Productive? Take a Bite Out of a Tomato!
This quick video features one of my favorite productivity strategies - The Pomodoro Technique. This strategy helps pretty much every client and audience member I share it with. So I thought I’d do a quick video to share it with all of you. I not only love the...
Video Tip – Clear the Decks: A Productive Form of Procrastination
Lots of people ask me if I have any productivity challenges, assuming I couldn't possibly as I'm a Productivity Consultant. Well, of course, I do. I'm human after all. This quick video describes one of my productivity challenges, which is something many of my clients...
Video Tip: Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
Author Dennis Merritt was onto something when he said: "What’s going on with people right now is that they are really being forced — not by their own choice — to stop and look in the mirror and redefine a lot of things…We’re smack dab in the middle collectively of a...
How Movement Makes You More Productive
So honored to be featured in this great article, along with a few other women entrepreneurs, by my writer colleague Sweta Vikram, about how exercise and movement increase productivity, while also helping you stay healthy. Here's my tip: “I’ve always been an active...
Video Tip: Tips for Working Productively From Home During This Difficult Time
These are some strange times! Who would have ever thought we’d be hunkered down at home, all trying to get work done, tend to our families, stay safe and healthy, while watching (and stressing about!) a global crisis? As a productivity consultant, I’m paying close...
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