A friend of mine has a rule for herself. If anyone makes a request of her time, her response is, “Let me look at my calendar and get back to you.”
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As a profession, I teach systems of time management. I’ve trained thousands of people at this point, and one of the most consistent friction points in my training sessions occurs when the concept of saying no comes up.
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Do you have any of the following New Year’s resolutions? Be more productive. Get my to do list in order. Feel like I am controlling my email instead of it controlling me. Finding time to live my best life. If you use Microsoft Outlook or Gmail and want to crush any of these resolutions in the year ahead, then our Balance and Productivity training can help you reach your goals.
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As we head into the last few days of the year, we want to send you our very best energy and wishes. May you have all the time you need and want to relax and rejuvenate with yourself and those you love before the start of 2025. We appreciate all of you.
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We’re in the thick of holiday season, which for many of us tends to be a time when we’re around a lot of people…perhaps more than normal. Especially for those of us who are introverts, all those extra people and conversations can seem overwhelming. But I heard a reframing of conversations once that helped me embrace interactions with others more.
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The holiday season is a time of year when we ask people for lists of things they want that can be purchased as gifts. Making lists of things we don’t have but we want is a somewhat regular exercise for many of us. But life coach Brooke Castillo encourages us to also regularly make lists of what we want and we already have.
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In Robin Sharma’s book Who Will Cry When You Die? Life Lessons From the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, the author encourages readers to do something kind for a stranger every day.
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One of my favorite gratitude practices is picking an activity or object and tasking my brain to think of all the people who had to pitch in to make it a possibility.
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During this time of reflection, I want to extend my sincerest appreciation to you, our readers: past, present, and future; near and far.
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On a recent podcast episode, life coach Brooke Castillo was encouraging people to participate in a concept she calls “deciding again.” As Brooke explains, every year, she urges people to decide everything in your life again – who you want to be, your goals, where you live, how you dress, what you look like.
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In a recent interview, Ed Mylett spoke with successful entrepreneur Jesse Itzler. During their discussion Jesse relayed the story of being in a meeting with one of his advisors, and the advisor asked him, “If you could leave one of two things to your kids, all this money or a wealth of experiences, what would you rather leave?” And Jesse answered, “Of course I want to leave the experiences.”
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I’m eternally attracted to ideas and practices that bring more light and love into this world. In the book Bring Out the Magic in Your Mind, author Al Koran urges us to bless our money.
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It’s the spookiest time of year! Halloween lore is full of stories about ghosts and goblins and other monsters. But in our day-to-day lives, it’s not ghosts and goblins that scare us.
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The alternative paths that I’ve been writing about resonate with me, and they help me to feel more myself when I follow them. But if your path takes you in different directions, then your preferences are valid. We are all unique. So the most important permission you should be granted is to be unapologetically you.
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In last week’s blog post, I referenced a recent Marie Forleo podcast in which she shared some of her top time management tips. Another one of her tips is to create before you consume.
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In a recent podcast, Marie Forleo shared some of her tips for how she manages her time. One of her tips is to schedule your priorities, including your personal priorities. Marie says, “If it’s not scheduled, it’s not real.”
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Our culture inundates us with messages of more. We’re told we should always be striving for more money, better homes, more expensive cars, more luxurious clothing, more opinions, more networking acquaintances, more power, more rewards, more acknowledgement, more, more, MORE! But Ed Mylett and Harvard Professor, Arthur Brooks, had a different point of view during a recent interview.
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Today is the first day of fall y’all!
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Many of us live in a world littered with broken promises. We vow to get our kids their favorite fast food in order to make them behave one moment and then hope they are distracted and don’t remember the pledge in the future. Buddy the Elf would probably yell at us, “You sit on a throne of lies!”
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One of Greg McKeown’s most notable quotes is, “If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.” He learned this lesson the hard way. Greg often tells the story of the day when one of his children was born. He had a professional meeting set up for that day, and after much tortured consideration, he ended up attending the meeting. It was there at that meeting on the day his child was coming into the world that he realized he had made the wrong choice.
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