Next year’s performance review
In my speeches on time management, I suggest an exercise to get people thinking about their medium-term goals. Many people get an end-of-year performance review. …Read More
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Weekends, workdays, and writing a series
I'm reading the Magic Treehouse books to my 5-year-old. If you've never picked them up, they're pretty good for kids who are beginning to be …Read More
My happiness toolkit
Many of you are readers of the Happiness Project blog (or books). Gretchen talks about creating a happiness toolkit: activities/strategies that you know boost your …Read More
Money and morality tales
Years ago, the authors of The Millionaire Next Door made a splash with what should be an obvious point: being a millionaire amounts to having …Read More
Scaling up me
I've been thinking a lot lately about what computers can do. I've also been thinking about a quote, paraphrased from Ambassador Frank Baxter (who now …Read More
Don’t keep it simple
I'm working my way through my advance copy of Gretchen Rubin's new book, Happier at Home. I'll have more to say about it when it's …Read More
Conference Fail: In which I take the swag
One of the funny things about being a self-help writer is that people assume you take your own advice. I try to. I wouldn’t write …Read More
Round-up: Tracking time, your boss’s marriage, etc.
From time to time, I'm asked to recommend productivity or time tracking software. It's a question I've resisted answering for two reasons. One is that …Read More
Time management is like chess
Decades ago, I had a brief interest in chess. I played around with a board and I read through books of the greatest matches. I …Read More
A matter of perception
Friday morning I had the rather exciting experience of taping a segment for the Today Show. I woke up bright and early in my hotel …Read More