My friend and colleague Ann Deaton, a leadership coach and consultant, starts each new year with a one word theme that expresses something she wants to live into that year—words like joy or boldness or innovation. I decided to follow her example and my word for the 2013 is ease. Ease to me is not …
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A Quick Practice for a Better 2013
Many of my clients are concerned about the quality of their day, which often seems frenetic and scattered as they rush from one meeting to the next. In fact, most people I know (including myself!) struggle with this sense of never having enough time, never getting enough done. I have begun a new practice that …
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5 Choices That Make You More Productive
I don’t know about you but my life is pretty crowded. Actually, I’m betting yours is too. Simple ideas that help me get more done are very attractive—especially when those ideas help me feel good about myself and what I’m accomplishing. And one thing that feels good is leaving my desk at the end of …
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Thank God for Poets
Elaine Kiziah, colleague and consultant at See Change Studio http://workingwellblog.com/, comments occasionally on my blog posts. Last week she sent a poem in response to my post on emotions as “honored guests.” That poem blew me away because it summed up in a few phrases what it had taken me paragraphs to write. In case …
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Tips for Making E-mail Work for You—Part 1
I sent out a call for help a couple of weeks ago—my e-mail was getting totally out of control.It was taking me 2-3 hours to get through it all and often I left some of it undone.Even more debilitating was the way I felt after an e-mail session—drained, discouraged, ineffective and overwhelmed.I believed e-mail was …
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The E-Mail Curse—A Call for Help
E-mail! It’s the best of times and the worst of times but I’m having a hard time remembering its virtues.All I’m thinking about are the hours it takes each day to get my in-box under control.Don’t get me wrong—I get a lot of valuable work done in those hours.At the same time, I think with …
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One Simple Way to Be More Productive
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about a time management video (yes, video) I saw back in the mid-1980’s.In that video, there is a beautiful scene where a man is fly fishing in a sun-dappled stream surrounded by green woods and a golden meadow.He is casting his line slowly and carefully to a rhythm that …
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