Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
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?
A reader recently asked, “How can an achievement-motivated workaholic learn to back off, relax, de-stress, and feel good about doing it? I am too driven!”
It’s the lack of starting that kills most tasks and projects.
What an extremely tough thing for teens to figure out: What should you do with your future?
I sat in a crowd of 45,000 in 2013, watching super-billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger riff off each other and deliver quick wit and worldly wisdom about finances and life in general...
It's hard to keep yourself going when you don’t feel the same excitement as you did in the beginning.
How does someone else’s success mean anything bad for you?
I'm often asked how you can start doing work you love - how you can make a living doing something you’re passionate about.
When I wrote the first words of my blog, more than five years ago, I had no idea those few keystrokes would change my life.
I've been stuck in a job I hate, and I felt imprisoned, trapped doing work that bored me while following orders of others and helping them achieve their goals.
Sometimes immersing yourself in the creative world of people doing amazing things can bring unexpected results.
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.
It is a beautiful thing to create, to produce, to go out there in the world and make a contribution. But it is just as important that we teach others to create and produce, that we encourage them...
The urgent desire for a successful business -- and the fear of losing business -- drives many a good person to do sleazy things.
One of the biggest challenges in meeting any goal, whether it be related to productivity, waking early, changing a habit, exercising, or just becoming happier, is finding the motivation to stick with it.
The hardest habits to change, by far, are the ones people can’t seem to control.
"Over the course of five years, I've managed to pay off over $35,000 in debt, quit my day job, and go from having nothing saved to fully funding my retirement accounts every year. In the process, I've developed a 14-point philosophy."
You know what it's like: No focus, lots of stress, lots of mental exhaustion without really getting anything done.
There are a lot of people who read self-improvement blogs and books, but never put them into action. Are you one?
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.
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.
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
It’s very simple: your MIT is the task you most want or need to get done today.
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
Too often we get stuck in inaction -- the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward.
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.
We all procrastinate. I put off writing this article by doing a bunch of smaller tasks, for example. They were less important and I knew it, but they were quick tasks and so easier than writing an article on a tough topic.
I had a friend ask me if I ever run out of ideas of things to write about, because my...
How much of your day is spent doing administrative tasks, and not creating or doing other important work?