The second week of November is “Pursuit of Happiness Week.” Pursuing happiness may have been much simpler back when the Founding Fathers were writing about  “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”  Although life was tough for many of them, options often limited.
Now we have so many choices we feel constantly stressed, pulled in multiple [...]

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If you were given a tool that would 1) increase productivity, 2) give you a better life balance, 3) help you feel in control, and 4) improve your health, would you be interested?  There is actually one thing you can do that can return multiple results:  Limit multitasking.  Take a look at why this one change would have such [...]

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Many of you dream of the day when you no longer have to “work.”  That actual retirement, however, may be a long way off.  In the current world, it may not come at all, as more and more people find they have to keep going to make ends meet.
When work consumes a major part of [...]

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The news keeps hitting us with more results on studies about links between work and health, both physical and mental.  One of my posts last month, titled “Vacations 2008:  Are We Making Strides in Managing Time and Stress?” referenced a study published in Psychosomatic Medicine and another conducted at the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin.  They related to [...]

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Last summer I had the privilege of being interviewed by the NBC Nightly News as their Productivity Expert, dealing with the topic of vacation deprivation in the United States. The question was why we take fewer vacations days on average than other countries.
Have we improved since last year? With the economy in flux [...]

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As we start out in the month of May, it is beneficial to reflect on what May Day means to many countries. On May 1, 1886, hundreds of thousands of workers in the U.S. marched in support of the eight-hour workday. From that date, It actually took 54 years of struggle before we [...]

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In a post that I wrote last week about crisis management, I presented some techniques for limiting the pressure of deadlines. Responding to this, one reader commented that it wasn’t useful advice for those “on the front lines who don’t have jobs that come with laptops, travel, and corporate jargon.”
I recognize that not everyone [...]

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Do you know any time-challenged parents who want to help their children use time productively? There is no question that kids can spend multiple hours per day on the internet, often to the detriment of homework. YouTube is one of the favorite spots.
Now there is another site growing, called TeacherTube, based on the [...]

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Are one of those people who lament the lack of personal time to escape from work issues, yet cannot bring yourself to let go of the Blackberry, laptop, and cellphone even when on a vacation?
Are you a family member who wants a vacation without those electronic intrusions into your spouse’s “free” time?

There is now an [...]

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Two pieces of legislation, one from the House and one from the Senate, relating to mental health issues have recently passed. It is the latest step in a seven-year effort to craft a mental-health parity bill requiring insurance plans to match mental-health benefits with those for other medical conditions. The next challenge is [...]

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