July 24, 2019 The Art of Decision-Making, or Why I Painted All of My Walls White 35,000 decisions per day. Let that sink in for a moment. On average, adults make 35,000 decisions per day. I’m getting a headache just thinking about it. Decisions like what to wear, what to eat, which way to drive to work. No matter how small or large, decisions take up bandwidth in our brains. And just like the internet when the bandwidth gets taken up by useless stuff, our decision-making can slow down our effectiveness at work, in relationships, basically in every facet of our lives. What to do about it (there’s another decision!)? I’ll play Marie Kondo of your…
June 11, 2013 I Ain’t Wasting Time No More What do your days look like? Are they chunks of frenetic activity, interspersed with catching up on a thousand emails? Do you control your days or do they control you? We’ve all heard the same advice: email is obtrusive, turn it off or don’t look at it for extended periods of each day, and your productivity will soar. Really? Have those advice-givers ever actually tried it? If so, and if they were successful at it, then they are clearly not as in-demand as the rest of us are! Everyone has a different dynamic in their position or job. Some jobs…
September 15, 2009 Keep Your Eye On The Ball, Just Not A Ping Pong Ball Does this ever happen to you…you’re at your desk working on a report, and then your mind strays to what you are serving your family for dinner that night? Or, you are watching your 8-year-old playing a little league baseball game, and you begin composing an email to an important client? This is not good. We all wear many hats and take on many roles in our lives: employees, parents, vendors, siblings, tenants, children, supervisors and friends. It is difficult to be the best at any one of those responsibilities, let alone be great at all of them! Sometimes the…
