Let’s say you have an agenda, and every time one of you wandered off the agenda, you forced yourself to get back on it. Would the conversation be better or worse, with a set outcome?
Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again?
Timeboxing is a simple time management technique you can use to take control of your time.
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen proved to be driven to distraction by the two devices.
What is a mind map? Put simply, it's a type of diagram, used to help you outline information in a visual format. But really, a mindmap can be anything you need it to be.
Let’s say you are sitting at your desk, with something to write, and you notice some anxiety… and an urge...
This checklist by Dr María Machón includes typical triggers for procrastination, along with possible solutions for each trigger.
None of us make decisions based on reality itself. We make decisions based on our beliefs about reality.
Excuses are lies we tell ourselves to avoid dealing with unpleasant truths. But as long as we buy into those excuses, we can never move past them.
As an increasing number of freelancers depend on the virtual workplace, how can they make themselves more attractive to potential employers?
Procrastination is in all of us, and one of the best ways to procrastinate is to do all the busy-work that makes us feel like we’re doing stuff -- while not doing the stuff we know we should be doing.
If you have ever wanted to know how to turn a content site into a virtual gold mine, you'd be smart to ask an expert how he or she managed it.
How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted?
If you don’t know how, learn how. Use that fancy brain that learned how to walk, talk, and read. It’s still capable of further learning, is it not? Of course it is!
There are a lot of people who read self-improvement blogs and books, but never put them into action. Are you one?
Starting a business is a lot of work. Anyone who tells you it's not is either lying or has never actually started one themselves.
It seems really simple: If you want to achieve something, set a goal and then make specific plans to implement it.
A big part of self-discipline comes from social pressure. This is how people in the military can become very disciplined, particularly in special forces. They don’t want to hold their team back, so they have to do their best.
How much of your day is spent doing administrative tasks, and not creating or doing other important work?
A common mistake people make is that they’ll spend 500 hours creating a product and then 20 hours promoting it. Then they wonder why no one is buying.
Following your passion can be a tough thing... but figuring out what that passion is can be even more elusive.
Life would be grand if we only did what our fleeting hearts wanted to do, each moment of the day. Unfortunately, the laundry, taxes and difficult conversations would never get done.
Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail! The tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed.
When a problem is large or complex and the optimal solution is unclear, here's how to begin making progress towards a solution even though you can’t visualize the entire path.
Fifty years ago, an old country doctor drove to town, hitched his horse, quietly slipped into a drug store by the back door. His mission was destined to bring to the South the most far-flung benefit since the Civil War.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
One of the keys to happiness -- as well as productivity and effectiveness at work -- is finding work you love, that you’re passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do.
Few people know the secret of Ford's success, and those who do know are too modest to speak of it, because of its simplicity.