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Category Archives: PEOPLE
28 Healthy, Fun, and Motivating Ways to Reward Yourself
How You Know a Reward is a Good Reward
I’m a huge fan of productivity, but I’m an even bigger fan of giving yourself rewards when you’ve really earned them like overcoming procrastination and taking action on something you’ve been putting off. What follows is a list of ideas to reward yourself in a healthy, fun, and sustainable way. Admittedly, these are small rewards […]
Why The Stories We Tell Ourselves Matter So Much
2 Kids, 1 Swim Meet, and the Insight of an 11-Year Old Boy That Will Impact Me Forever
How to Develop Thick Skin
One of my observations of our current society is that we have lost the sense of thick skin that I feel we used to have. There is such a heightened sense of political correctness and hypersensitivity, that we have created “safe spaces” and have new labels like “micro-aggression” to insulate us from what someone would […]
Overcoming the “Sunday Night Dread”
4 Steps To Start Your Week Even When You're Not Ready
Have you ever felt the “Sunday Night Dread”? The “Sunday Night Dread” is a phrase I coined to express the feeling you get every Sunday night before going into work on Monday morning. It’s that feeling of not looking forward to what you’re going to face the next day. You’re not looking forward to facing […]
How to Conquer Procrastination Once and For All
8 Ways to start that thing you’ve been putting off
All of us are plagued by something that we don’t want to do, and we’ve been putting it off for some time. It may be starting a business, going back to school, pursuing a new certification, taking a compliance training, starting a workout regimen, re-organizing the garage or our personal space, balancing our checkbook, or […]
The Secrets of Building Community
10 Ways to Bond People Together
Leadership literature tends to focus on the leader themselves, the qualities that they need to have, as well the tips, tricks, tactics, and techniques they need to be successful. However, one of the most critical and underrepresented leadership skills is that of building community and how to do it effectively. Over the years, I have […]
Why The Words We Use Are So Important
25 Words That Will Transform Your Mood Right Now
What the fear of losing our job makes us do and what you can do differently
10 Ways to Save Yourself from Job Catastrophe
In an economic environment where corporations can easily outsource work to other countries for less, where salaries are not increasing but are actually decreasing, where layoffs are a reality even in the most robust economic areas, and all so that companies can meet Wall Street expectations – fear of losing one’s job is not only […]