Feb
23
2010
Thank goodness this isn’t the norm today but this was true for girls of my generation. It used to be, if you asked an 11-year-old preteen what she wanted on her pizza, she decisively said, pepperoni. But ask her just four years later at 15 and she’d be more inclined to respond. “Oh I don’t know, what do you want?”
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Jan
27
2010
You really are brilliant, you know. Out of 6 billion of us on the planet there is no one like you.
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Apr
02
2009
I’ve been observing the various states of being/doing, which we find ourselves in all day long. For small business entrepreneurs, strategic productivity is essential. To improve business productivity raise your state of consciousness.
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Mar
26
2009
Making decisions is essential to success. Without a decision, we cannot follow through and complete.
This truth seems so basic and obvious. Why then do so many get so hung up in daily indecision? I’m sure you know that completing priority items is optimum. But decision making requires courage and sometimes we’d rather distract ourselves than choose.
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Jan
20
2009
For about 8 months now, I’ve seen the solution for my time crunch. The solution was to create more effective work standards that honored my chosen priorities. But in the midst of making the necessary productivity adjustments, I’m presented with even more opportunities to learn and grow my business.
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Jan
13
2009

How to Feel Like Doing
What You Say You Want to Do
Anyone who wants to figure it all out before taking action, delays unnecessarily. Read In the Mood, by Seth Godin. He points out that we aren’t lacking information. But we are lacking the proper mood to do what we want to do.
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May
05
2008
Have you ever screwed up and not followed through on a self-pledge? We all have, many times, and we are likely to continue, right? If that’s so, consider this. Wouldn’t it be a better strategy to give up on perfection and simply allow the screw-ups to occur? If we could do that without being so hard on ourselves, we’d be more fulfilled, waste less time and be far more productive.
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Apr
22
2008
Celebration may be the most underutilized tool in your box. Some view celebration as soft or slacking off – like we aren’t really doing anything. Nothing could be further from the truth. Celebration is a pivotal stage in the productivity process because it allows us to commemorate all the good that we do.
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Jan
16
2008
What’s so overwhelming about information overload? Why do we see it as overload at all? Why do we see too much information as overwhelming? Before the Internet we didn’t get upset because we couldn’t read every book in the library.
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