Time to Reset

We live in an urgent society of microwaves, fast food, text messages read in 90 seconds and responded to in 3 to 120 seconds on average. It is no wonder that it is difficult to balance what is urgent with what is important. Our constant focus on urgencies is costing us better wealth, better relationships, better finances, and more meaning in our lives. Tune in for three tips to setting priorities...

The difficult part of prioritization isn’t deciding what to prioritize, it is when your plans go to hell and you have new circumstances that require you to prioritize on the fly. Not all tasks are created equal. As you start the day, you want to take a look at the priorities, goals, and value of each task. People get flustered, overwhelmed and upset when things don’t go according to plan. Here’s w...

As a broke college kid looking for extra beer money, Nathan Hirsch, CEO of FreeeUp.com, an outsourcing platform, was running a million-dollar baby product business from a college dorm room. His business exploded and soon he found he needed some help. Nathan took advantage of remote hiring and became addicted to it because he saw all the potential and had access to talent from all around the world....

We all get those days when we feel like we are the rock stars of our life because we manage to get everything done with so much energy, passion, and enthusiasm. There are also days where it feels like it’s the longest day in our life because we are all over the place and nothing is really getting done. Once you define what your relationship with time is, you have complete control over any situatio...

We all have the same amount of time on our hands. The difference is just a matter of pacing ourselves accordingly to the events that happen during our day. There are days when we feel that we are just spinning the wheel, knowing in the back of our mind that we are not getting anywhere. Bestselling author of Three Feet From Gold, Greg Reid, believes that the power to persevere is the key to keeping...

The biggest factor of success in that all aspects of life involve the practice of discipline. We need to look at discipline like a muscle that needs exercise in order for it to grow stronger. The stronger discipline gets, the better we respond to the situations in our life, and where some we have no control, we respond to it on reflex. The practice of discipline becomes a practice of excellence. O...

A lot of us think that we get a lot of work done when we multitask. Often times, that is true, but there are also instances when we are just all over the place and get things done halfway. Brian Sidorsky has a billionaire mindset to finish one project at a time. There is no need to split your focus, if you don’t get the work done in the end. The trick is to prioritize, start and complete each task...

Whatever we do becomes harder when we are resistant. Every effort and energy we put out seems to be magnified when we complain and criticize. Have you ever wondered what the physical cost of resistance is? Resistance hinders us from being present in the moment because we keep choosing that place where we complain, judge, and criticize. Learn how you can take away some nuggets of wisdom in life and...

At one point or another, our work environment has forced us to multitask. We have to take on different functions and wear different hats. Multitasking is actually counterproductive, and this is what Heidi Hanna has been teaching for the last ten years. She says that we only have a limited amount of brain power at any given time. Splitting that up between different tasks decreases how much we have....

When you are running all over the office, you’d think things are getting done. But the reality of checking things off the list is that it isn’t just inefficient and ineffective, but also unproductive. However, this framework is still debatable because one person’s definition of productivity will differ from the other. We can be in a place where we are both efficient and effective and this is calle...

Ron Klein is known as the grandfather of possibilities. His innovations and creations, things that we don’t really think much about, have become part of our everyday life, like the magnetic strip on the credit card, MLS for real estate, and voice response for the banking industry, among others. He shares that keeping it simple is the key to being an innovator. His innovations stem from the solving...

Time never seems to be enough. But how can we be more efficient and effective with the time we’re given? It really isn’t a question of time management. We’re either over-functioning by being caught up in perfectionism or under-functioning by being caught up in procrastination. Whether we’re procrastinating or we’re in perfectionism, we are in stress. It creates stress for us or it creates stress f...

As we get older, creating new habits seems to become more difficult. They are especially hard to stick to when they involve any kind of physical exertion. On average, it takes up to 60 days to develop a new habit. You can actually learn to create new habits and stick to it using a technique called habit stacking. Habit stacking simply means stacking a new habit you want to develop onto another hab...

Time simply doesn’t seem to be enough and cramming our mountain of tasks into a day can leave us tired and wired so that we lose the capability to think logically and communicate effectively. With all the phones buzzing, emails and text messages beeping, and different obligations requiring our attention, our system gets overstimulated. We can learn to take time to slow down, calm down and relax be...

There are many kinds of leaders. Some push people forward to get to where they need to go, and there are other who lead people by pulling them. Bearj Jehanian, author of Break Down The Walls encourages business people to be the second type of leader. When you trust your team with your mission and give them permission to act along with you, everyone becomes more efficient and effective.