I thought my schedule was packed when I worked in corporate. Filling in my days with status meetings, presentations, sales calls, and updates all mixed together to produce a week chock full of weaving, diving, and running.Now that I've been running my company for the past ten years, I've found it even harder to keep my schedule clear and organized to ensure I get everything done AND allow myself the time to work on my business.
Who Moved Your Acorn?
When we got out of school, we all had a dream. A dream of being someone important, making great strides, doing great things. Making a difference.Unfortunately, life intervened. Work snuck it's ugly head in. Then family. Friends. Hobbies. Activities. TV. You get my drift. Today, I have one question to ask you: What's your dream?
Understand WHO You Really Work With.
4 Steps To Dramatically Improve Your Business.
3 Critical Mistakes You Make On The Job Every Day.
Netflix, What Are You Thinking?
One of my most respected and admired businesses, Netflix, unveiled major changes to their pricing structure. If you are a customer, you probably received an email yesterday announcing the price increase. Netflix just asked me to pay a 33% increase in fees for THE SAME SERVICE. My current package (2 CD's and Streaming Movies) used to cost $14.99 per month — now they want me to pay $19.98 per month.
Why You Hate AND Love Your Email.
Get RUNNING.
3 Tips When Everything Is Failing All Around You.
If You're Not Moving Up, You're Going Down.
Pushing Yourself Farther Than Ever Before.
How To Deal With Very Difficult People.
"What would you think if I sang out of tune?"
Are You Paralyzed At Work?
How To Be More Effective On The Job.
Looking For Light At The End Of The Tunnel.
"When it is dark enough, you can see stars." Received this in a fortune cookie Friday night at our favorite asian restaurant in downtown New Haven (date night with my beautiful wife, Silvia).
After a small amount of research, I found it's attributed to Charles Beard, one of the most influential American historians of the 20th century.
How To Think Creatively.
Hate Your Job? Here's How To Love It.
How much love is there in your life? You probably love your parents, your spouse/partner, your kids . . . but what else do you love?
Do you love any of your friends? Colleagues? Nature? A beautiful day? A good book?
How about work? Do you love it? Hate it? If work was a long spectrum from Totally Love to Uncomfortably Despise, where would you fall on that line?