Attention management is an essential skill in the modern workplace. To stay focused, you have to take control of your technology. With so many alerts, messages and temptations from our devices clamoring for our attention, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that...
Sleep and productivity might seem at odds with each other. In some fields, people even boast about their crazy hours or how little sleep they get. But that kind of thinking is misguided. Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make clear that our...
Did this happen to you? You discovered a new productivity system and got excited about its potential to help you accomplish more. You vowed that THIS YEAR would be your "Year of Productivity" and then put your new system into action. Then, a few weeks later, you...
Ok, so change is hard, right? But there are ways to make it easier. If there is an area of your life that you are trying to change, first, raise your awareness about it, then educate yourself about how to get better at it. The last component, and the most difficult...
Yesterday's post discussed how hard it is to incorporate change in your life and the first step that might make it easier: awareness. Educating yourself is the second step in changing your behavior. It’s hard to change habits when you don’t know how or what to change...
We all know that changing our behaviors is hard. Knowing we should exercise isn't enough to get us into the gym or out on the Trail every day. It’s why most New Year’s Resolutions don’t last beyond January. But there are three components to changing behaviors, and...
