You see the words everyday:  goal setting, time managment, multitasking, organizing….  After diet and weight-loss books, these topics are high on the list of self-help tomes.  I have worked with clients who owned more time management books than many bookstores stock at one time, yet they still need me to come into their offices and [...]

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We tend to blame others when we can’t concentrate on a project, and there’s some validity in that.  After all, the average business person is interrupted about every three minutes.  Interruptions commonly stem from the telephone, email, or a colleague.  These are easy to pinpoint, but there is another one to add to that list.  [...]

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True or False:  You don’t have enough time.
True or False:  You can learn to save time.
True of False:  When you multitask, you accomplish more.
Scroll to the bottom for the answers.  If you didn’t get the answers right, you are certainly not alone in your thinking.  The first is the lament of the modern business world, the [...]

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Two things have just presented themselves to me in the last hour that both focused on self-discipline.  They came from two people who were trying to achieve goals and kept getting stuck.  While the areas are different, there is an overlap in the processes that bring the desired results.
Situation One: A teacher/real estate investor had [...]

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Another “senior moment”!  Why is it that the harder we work, the more difficult it becomes to remember the little details?  The more often we forget someone’s name or the location of our keys, the more the specter of Alzheimer’s creeps in.
Yet forgetting things is not all negative.  It is important to let go of extraneous [...]

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A client recently showed me a cartoon about how to keep one’s desk cleared: replacing the Inbox on the desk with a trash can. Sometimes we may dream about being able to do that, but then reality creeps in and the stacks remain. However there is another use of the word “trashing” [...]

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Many companies periodically conduct an inventory which allows them to maintain an accurate count of materials, detail a valuation of assets, and a provide a catalog for replacement needs in the event of natural disaster. Although inventories take time up front, they are great time management tools in the long term. Just compare [...]

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Executive Funtion: assessing, prioritizing, assigning mental functions, tracking multiple activities, reflecting
These are all characteristics that a good executive performs daily. They are also the tasks that emanate from your brain’s prefrontal cortex. This region of your brain is the one that sustains the most damage from prolonged periods of stress.
In our fast-paced [...]

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Continuing my response to the reader who requested advice for those who were on the “front lines” and didn’t have a project-driven day (see the original crisis management post), I’m going to address customer-driven jobs.
If you were hired to answer telephones, such as in a call center, then obviously you cannot decide that [...]

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“Where did this week go?”
That common phrase can be interpreted in two different ways:

It was a great week. I had so much fun/got so much done that it flew by.
I don’t feel that I accomplished anything I had planned, and it is already the end of the week.

It is not hard to figure out [...]

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