It’s always seemed strange that some people are unhappy. Sure, if you’re dirt poor and begging on a street corner, that makes sense. But, if you’re reading this, that’s not you. I’m writing this in Cape Town at the tail end of month long family trip through Southern...
Don’t read another time management book. Please. Trust me, I know how misleading time management advice can be. In fact, I wrote a time management book. In this post, I’m going to share the only strategy that I know really works for getting stuff done (and feeling...
I have an apology to make. I think in past articles I’ve given you some lousy advice about productivity. Really lousy. But, I’m not the only one who should be apologizing—there’s a barge load of bad advice in blogs, books, youtube and on bathroom walls. It usually...
Today was a good day. I did very little work. But don’t get me wrong…it was a really productive day. Let me explain. Recent research has looked at how many hours we are actually productive at work. And how much time is spent being distracted. The results are sort of...
Note: this article on doing nothing, originally published in March 2015, was very popular so I decided to sand some rough edges, add more body and give it a new coat of paint. Enjoy. Last night I brewed some Sweet Morocco green tea, turned on the fireplace (something...
I just got off the phone with a student in my BOSS program. She needed tough love. She was running around in cerebral circles thinking of all the things she should be doing, could be doing, to move her speaking business forward and then - just as quickly - coming up...
It wasn’t long ago that factory work, coal mines, lumber and fishing employed more than half our workers That was Hard Work. Nobody was sneaking a peak at Instagram updates, checking their Inbox, or trying to increase their Luminosity score. They came to work to do...