How peak performers utilize this vital resource to live a purposeful life. Time is a fixed resource. We all have the same 24 hours to spend as we wish. What is your attitude toward time? What is your self-talk as it relates to time? “I never have enough time” “What a waste of time” OR “Time is on my side” “I have [...]

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By Sue Brenner, PCC, PMP Is your schedule jam-packed? Is your day overloaded with meetings, managing your business, planning for the future and day-to-day work? Do you get to the end of the day and wonder what you really accomplished?  Is your work day overflowing into your home life?   Do you wish you could [...]

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Let’s talk a little today about time. I found this video back in September 2009 and I enjoyed it so much that I copied it over to save in my blog. I had it saved in my hundreds of drafts and just rediscovered it today. It continues to “wow” me. One of my most favorite [...]

By Lisa Rickwood What do Valentine’s Day, Christmas, dating, dinner and a movie, marriage and couples have in common? Rituals. A ritual is defined as ‘any method of doing something in which the details are always faithfully repeated.’ To relate this to your life, rituals include: the time you wake up, how your brush your [...]

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The most disruptive, derailing and productivity-killing force in our lives (continued from Success is Not What You DO) is information overload and your attention is under siege. In our modern society we all are suffering from information overload… there are more than 2 billion emails sent every day. More than 75 million blog posts are published every day, and 500,000 new books and 400,000 scholarly journals are published each year. There are 18,000 magazines (ahem, although only one that counts) and in 2005 Google stopped counting Web pages when it reached 8 billion. This has happened along with the explosion of highly competitive commercial media and marketing constantly vying for our attention. In 1992 we were hit with 2,000 marketing messages a week. Today it’s over 30,000—a 15X increase in less than 20 years… and growing. And, if that is not enough, we have become an instant-access portal open to the world—not to just the occasional office visitor, or the ringing phone, but the constant deluge of rapid-fire email, text messages, RSS feeds, instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook and now mobile alerts. I think technology has advanced faster than our human ability to manage it. The tail is definitely wagging the dog. We end up living our lives like a pinball, bouncing from one thing to the next. Tell me if this sounds familiar… The first thing you see on your desk in the morning is the computer screen staring at you with all the email messages that came in overnight. You start answering them and then the phone starts ringing, people start streaming into your office with questions and requests. You’re paying half attention to them because you’ve got two other screens in front of you telling you what’s going on in the markets and in the world as well as a deluge of new email stacking up. This goes on all day, one demand after another, split up only by meetings in which everyone spends half their time answering emails on their BlackBerry. You walk out of...

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When it comes to comparing superachievers and everyone else, it has less to do with what they do and more to do with what they don’t do. Saying “yes” is easy; saying “no” is much harder, but it is the master skill of success. In a world where we are constantly being tugged on from a thousand different directions, your ability to be productive and ultimately achieve your big hairy audacious goals has more to do with all the things you DON’T do versus the things you do. Put it this way: For everything you say “yes” to you are saying “no” to something else… and you only have so much time. For most people, the ability to do MORE is impossible; you are already overwhelmed and working yourself to exhaustion 24/7. Doing MORE is not the answer. Doing less is. Saying “no” to more things so you...

By Remez Sasson How do you feel at the end of the day? Do you feel satisfied that you managed to do everything you wanted to do, or are you frustrated because you wasted your time? Do you manage your time properly? 15 Time Management Tips You need to know what exactly want do You [...]

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I’m a serious student of time management. I was hooked the first time I attended a Franklin-Covey seminar—I was 23. Using a system that included life planning (not just a calendar), I was able to get more done without feeling so scattered. But since then, “more” has turned into a lot more. And it’s not just my stuff that that I have to keep track of… it’s my kids, my husband, work, school, writing deadlines, travel schedules, etc. Keeping everything organized in one online calendar helps, but the warning light on my mental-stress indicator was flashing OVERLOAD on a regular basis. So it’s no wonder that the title of Patrick Lencioni’s book The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family caught my attention. Frantic is exactly how I felt. Maybe Lencioni and his book could offer some guidance...

5 Simple Tips to Help Manage Your Time Did you click on the headline of this blog post eager to find the simple secrets of time management? Well, I have to admit, that headline was kind of wishful thinking. Time management isn’t easy (at least, not for many of us—including me) and we’re all looking [...]

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by Amy Anderson Managing Editor Okay, so the fact that I scribbled the letter “B” on the back of my hand to remind myself to write this blog entry today should tell you just how much I need productivity strategies. I have a friend who jokes that my mind is like a steel sieve. That’s not a [...] Post from: SUCCESS magazine Blog People who read this also read...Priority 1: Stop the Chaos. Priority 2: Live with Purpose. I’m a serious student of time management. I was hooked the first time I...Behind the Scenes: Entrepreneur, Designer, Philanthropist Kenneth Cole During my interview with Kenneth Cole in his Manhattan offices for our July cover...

One of the things the best of the best in business (and life) do staggeringly well is they leverage time to create spectacular results. We all have the same amount of time in a day/month/life. Those who use it poorly live half lives. Those who use it well become superstars. Post from: SUCCESS magazine Blog People who read this also read...Sharma: Grow Leaders Fast Grow the Leader is based on a simple yet powerful concept: Your enterprise’s ultimate...Sharma: Turbulent Times Build Better Leaders Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common...Sharma: Leadership 2.0 The New Way to Win The old model of leadership is obsolete. Businesses that were once admired have crumbled....

March 15, 2010 marked the 25th anniversary of the first “dot-com” registration on the Internet.  With over 100 million domain registrations and counting, we’ve witnessed an explosion of communication, commerce, idea-sharing, and human connectivity unlike anything else in human history. This truly marks a revolutionary and transformational shift in the way we live, gather information, do commerce, and [...]

Learn How to Say “NO” If you find yourself always taking on more than you can handle, you probably have a problem with saying no. It makes you feel guilty, right? But when you say yes when you wanted to say no, that makes you feel worse. When someone is looking for help, they’re going to call [...]

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The cats helped me wrap holiday presents yesterday. By 'help' I mean, they hid the tape, wrestled the bows, and mitt scratches in both the patch essay and on the presents. A lowercase vexing, but mostly lots of fun. The presents got wrapped, and in some cases re-wrapped, and we every had a beatific time. I'm sure that we've every feature articles or studies that exhibit that having an animal in your chronicle makes you mentally healthier. They bring you pact and happiness at those times that you are feeling your worst. Animals undergo when you're sad, and module come comfort you in their own ways. They also undergo when you're happy, and move to your moods accordingly. I've even heard that people with pets springy longer. And maybe that's ground it's so awful losing a loved pet. Your 'pal' that has been at your side for so daylong is dead condemned stricken themselves. Those of us who hit pets hit some inclined memories of them that are not easily explained to someone else....

The start of a New Year is always special. There is a feeling of renewal as we look to a new year, a new beginning and there is a sense of excitement for making changes or adopting new habits. However, do you ever find [...]