Maintaining Integrity in Compromising Work Situations
I think we can all agree that displaying integrity in a situation is not always the easiest thing to do. Doing what is right is not always easy - but it is right. There are many potential compromising situations in the workplace. If I were to list all the ones that I...
Setting Yourself up for Success
We all have dreams and goals that we want to achieve. We aspire to be successful in our respective industries, fields, professions, and passions. But what is success? What does it mean? In a nutshell, success is when we take ourselves from the state of hoping and...
Wasting Time With Micro Timewasters
We notice how and when we waste time on a large scale. We see that we spent an hour on social media or that we watched TV for three hours. However, these aren’t the only ways we waste time. We waste time in dozens of ways each...
The Value of Organizing Tomorrow – Today
If you want to maximize your effectiveness and the amount you get done each day, organize tomorrow, today. The second that you open your eyes you can already be clear and certain about what you have to do that day. It’s much...
The Secret to Being More Proactive at Work
What does your workday look like? Maybe you’re productive and engaged. Perhaps you’re working hard but accomplishing little because you’re usually cleaning up after the things that happened yesterday. The answer depends on whether you’re reactive or proactive. A...
7 Tips to Help Us Rethink Our Fears
I imagine that the fear of failure has killed more dreams than all other fears combined. It is especially treacherous because it’s largely in your imagination. It can prevent you from even trying in the first place and that guarantees failure. When i...
Ughhh… I Need To Stop Procrastinating
You procrastinate because the thought of taking a certain action does not excite you. In fact the thought actually makes you a tad sad. There are lots of actions that give us that “Ugh” feeling when we even think about doing them. The unpleasant...
8 Habits of The Unproductive Project Leader
Being an effective leader of a project is about getting the right things done in a timely manner. You often have to wade through minutiae and determine the next best thing to do. You have to be productive. With a world filled with choices and...
Finding Fun in Your Workday
New Year New Me. It’s probably more like – New Year Same Stuff. How do we inject a little more fun in our day to day, this year? For some of us, we love what we do – we are having fun as soon as we show up and start creating our magic. For most of...