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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...
What’s Your Focus Word for 2020? An Alternative New Year’s Ritual (Instead of Pesky Old New Year’s Resolutions!)
Around this time of year when we flip the calendar from one year to the next, most people make a long list of New Year's Resolutions. It is a noble idea in theory, but often in practice, doesn't amount to much. Resolutions often get cast aside and discarded, making...
Meeting Goals: How to Make Sure That Meetings Are Productive
This month's feature article, "Meeting Goals" is taken from my online contribution to Comstock's Magazine, a business magazine in the Sacramento area. Check it out for tips and advice on how to hold fewer meetings, and make the ones you do have to attend run more...
Decide to DECIDE! How Being a Quick and Efficient Decision Maker Increases Your Results in Business & Life
I'd like to share with you this video (or audio) that I did with Smead in their "Keeping You Organized" podcast series with John Hunt. We discussed decisions and indecisiveness… and why it's important to make a decision, even if it may turn o ut to be the wrong one....
Poor Time Management is Bad for Your Health
It's been a few months since the new year began. Remember that New Year's Resolution to become healthier? How are you doing with it? Not feeling as fit and healthy as you'd like to be? The answer is time management! Check out my article in Comstock's Magazine: "Poor...
The Way We Work: Productivity Habits & Hacks
Thrilled to share this article, The Way We Work, which was featured in Comstock's Magazine, and quotes yours truly as a productivity expert. The article highlights several executives and leaders, and maps out their day and how they spend their time. The author, Jeff...
Ditch the New Year’s Resolutions: Choose a Focus Word to Guide You in the New Year
Around this time of year when we flip the calendar from one year to the next, most people make a long list of New Year's Resolutions. It is a noble idea in theory, but often in practice, doesn't amount to much. Resolutions often get cast aside and discarded, making...
Vulnerability Is Not a Weakness: Lessons Learned from Surgery
I recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of my abdominal surgery to remove my gallbladder. It got me thinking about what it was like to have several medical issues and injuries over the past year (just as I was fully recovering from that surgery, I fractured a...
Where is This Supposed “Midlife Crisis?” Aging Into Confidence on the Back-Nine
So I'm now at the age that most people would call Midlife. My husband jokingly calls it "the Back Nine," referring to the last nine holes of an eighteen hole golf course. I don't play golf, but I certainly get the gist! When I was a kid, I remember hearing about how...
NAPO Podcast: Let Go to Grow – Focusing on Your Strengths
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals (NAPO) for it’s podcast series. My topic was Let Go to Grow: Focusing on Your Strengths. Below is a description of the podcast interview,...
Cinderella Actually Had Three Ugly Step Sisters: The 3 Blocks to Success – Part 2
Here’s the second part of my video interview with John Hunt of Smead’s Keeping You Organized online show. The topic is “Cinderella Actually Had Three Ugly Step Sisters: The 3 Blocks to Success.” You can listen to it as a podcast or watch it as a video....
The Power of Unscheduling Your Calendar: Giving Priority to Typically Unstructured Activities
There is a practice that I have been using for years when it comes to my schedule and how I allocate my time. It is a habit I started doing years ago because I am very calendar-focused. I pretty much put everything on my calendar. And by everything, I mean even...
Cinderella Actually Had Three Ugly Step Sisters: The 3 Blocks to Success – Part 1
Here's my video interview with John Hunt of Smead’s Keeping You Organized online show. The topic is "Cinderella Actually Had Three Ugly Step Sisters: The 3 Blocks to Success.” You can listen to it as a podcast or watch it as a video. It is only 15 minutes long...
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