Our attention is often pulled in too many directions, leaving us feeling overloaded, distracted, chaotic, spread thinly, without focus. So what can you do?
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.
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.
How much of your day is spent doing administrative tasks, and not creating or doing other important work?
There are a lot of people who read self-improvement blogs and books, but never put them into action. Are you one?
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!
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.
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.
What an extremely tough thing for teens to figure out: What should you do with your future?
This checklist by Dr María Machón includes typical triggers for procrastination, along with possible solutions for each trigger.
Let’s say you are sitting at your desk, with something to write, and you notice some anxiety… and an urge...
Some lessons that apply equally to getting buff and to building your business
Timeboxing is a simple time management technique you can use to take control of your time.
Trying to resist that late-night tweet or checking your work email again?
Often we're discouraged because of some tough challenge or obstacle in our way. But a shift in mindset, courtesy of a Zen proverb, can change everything: The obstacle is the path.
We all know that if you’re truly passionate about something, productivity becomes largely irrelevant.
We all have days when we’re just not very inspired, when we need passion and creativity breathed into us.
Sometimes you need to become unbalanced in order to get things done. If you’re working on a book, launching a business or trying to overhaul some part of your life, you can probably relate.
You know what it's like: No focus, lots of stress, lots of mental exhaustion without really getting anything done.
If you don’t believe you’ll succeed, then some parts of you will resist your goal, and your progress will be frustratingly slow.
It's a huge limiting belief to assume that going faster means you’re doing something wrong and creating too much stress.
Do you ever have one of those days when you just can’t seem to find focus?
Creativity is often made out to be a nebulous, messy, complicated, difficult thing, and it can be. But it doesn't have to be.
Too often we get stuck in inaction -- the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward.
You might think that a loving partner helps keep you on track -- say, when you want to stick to your jogging or concentrate on your studies.
Many of us are good at starting things — it’s the finishing that we need help with.
It’s the lack of starting that kills most tasks and projects.
There are plenty of pitfalls that can distract you from getting your work done. Here we look at 10 ways to ensure you’re set up for success in your home office.
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.
Procrastination, the habit of putting tasks off to the last possible minute, can be a major problem in both your career and your personal life. Side effects include missed opportunities, frenzied work hours, stress, feeling overwhelmed, resentment and guilt.