Mark Botros
Category Archives: PRODUCTIVITY
If you want balance you have to fight for it yourself. It’s a lonely battle, because no one is going to give it to you, and no one is going to help you. If anything, they’re trying to take it away.
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 […]
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Texting Etiquette 101 and Common Texting Acronyms
In my post, Email Common Sense 101 I talk about what good email etiquette looks like. Since texting is the other major form of non-in-person communication, I would feel remiss if I didn’t provide some equivalent etiquette around texting. Texting has dominated text-based communication for many reasons: Mass Adoption! Mobile devices are everywhere (there are […]
How to Get Your Ideas Heard
6 Strategies to Get Critical Ideas Noticed
In January 2016 The world economic forum put out a report saying that “critical thinking” was among the top needed skills both in 2015, and it will continue to be a top skill in the year 2020. Organizations have a bit of a cognitive dissonance or conflict when it comes to critical thinking and critical […]
How to Find Your Purpose
“What is your purpose?” “What is the meaning of your life?” Have you ever thought about these questions for yourself? The concept of purpose is broad, transcendent, and certainly not something you bring up in casual conversation, but knowing our purpose is critical to our success in life. It gives us focus, meaning, and a prism to view our life through to determine whether we are focused on the right things or not. If you look around, the people with the deepest sense of purpose seem to do the best.
How to Manage a Micromanager
9 Strategies to Help You Overcome Bad Management
In my post, “Confessions of a Micromanager” I talked about what’s really going on inside the head of a micromanager – using myself as the case study. In that post, I talked about “the problem”, how micromanagers operate primarily from a place of insecurity, fear, or a lack of control or trust. In some cases, […]
Why we Need a Holiday from our Screens
If you look around in any waiting room nowadays, you notice people doing one of several things, but mainly one: they are using some kind of screen (phone, tablet, computer, TV) to pass the time. While our electronic devices are necessary for work, communication, connection, and re-creation, at what cost does it come? I believe […]