Success at Work Challenge Week 1: Mind your hours
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 7 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Category Archives: Time Management
Leaning in, with clementines
Can you have a big career, be ambitious, and still appreciate a clementine? Can you achieve great things professionally and still appreciate “the color, the …Read More
Magnolias and the drumbeat of days
I've always wanted to have a gorgeous, flowering garden. I also know that the planning and production of such a garden -- paying a landscape …Read More
Make over your workday, light a fire under your career
One of the phrases that has stuck with me over the years is that “A life is lived in hours.” We may have grand ideas …Read More
What do the most successful people do at work?
My next ebook, on What the Most Successful People Do at Work, will be out next Tuesday (see Amazon and BN.com to pre-order; it will …Read More
How to have a great weekend
If yesterday was Thursday thoughts, today is Friday thoughts. They're shorter. HuffPost's OWN (the Oprah channel) picked up a piece I wrote on What the Most …Read More
Thursday thoughts
Over at Twitter yesterday, I posted this thought: "If you don't want to do anything on your to-do list, maybe you need a different to-do …Read More
TV’s 50 percent tax
People watch vast quantities of television. According to the 2012 American Time Use Survey, the average American spends 2.75 hours per day watching television as …Read More
Rethinking happy hour
Spring has been pretty dreary in my neck of the woods so far. I think the temperature got down to freezing last night, and the …Read More
Checking things off your “Dreams List”
Laura's note: I'm taking a vacation from blogging this week, and I'm re-posting a few pieces from the archives that you may have missed the …Read More