Yesterday, the blog covered a foundational understanding of your energy each day. When it peaks and what you need to recharge. This post will take that knowledge and introduce activities that make up our days. By combining your understanding of your daily...
We focus a lot on maximizing our time and money. While both are important, I’ve also started thinking a lot more about maximizing energy. Knowing how your energy changes through the day can allow you to experiment with the types of activities you schedule to align...
We all procrastinate. In fact, Darius Foroux conducted a survey of 2200 of his newsletter readers and found that 88% of professional workers procrastinate at least one hour per day. You can read all his findings here. There are many reasons we give ourselves for...
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average person holds 12.4 jobs between the ages of 18 and 54. Those jobs often span 5-7 different careers. I often hear when someone wants to make a career change that the main thing holding them back...
The other day, I heard someone mention “OOPS Syndrome” in a conversation about calendars. I questioned what OOPS was and the response was “it’s Overly Optimistic Planning Syndrome”. This made me laugh out loud with familiarity – both something I see in myself as...
A lot has been written about time vs. money and which is more valuable. This has me thinking about time gaining interest. Is this possible? How might this happen? An interest rate on your financial investments is a fixed, annual percentage applied to your...
Today, I’m combining thinking from Gretchen Rubin and Laura Vanderkam with a bit of my own perspective sprinkled in. Several years ago, Gretchen started talking about alternatives to the “to do” list. She turned her concepts into a cute gift. You might want to...
Yesterday, I covered how we need to plant seeds so that things grow in the future. This got me thinking about how to work “seed planting” into everyday routines. That’s when the realization hit me. Most of us spend so much of our days watering and...
This morning I listened to a podcast by Laura Vanderkam titled “Plant Seeds to Enjoy the Harvest”. The concept was that you need to intentionally plant seeds so that things have an opportunity for a harvest in the future. I think this is an interesting concept...
Personal development is an ongoing process. We continue to work on different areas of our lives with the goal of improvement. Along the way, some things we try will work and we stick with them. Others will fail and fade away. Adapting a test and learn mindset helps...
The transition from one year to another is also a time where reoccurring meetings are set up for the year ahead. Often this is done without thought and just placing them in the same location as the year before. What would happen if we set this foundation...
At the start of the new year, performance reviews are happening at many companies. Often there are two components to the review: Your self-evaluation and the evaluation from your manager. Over the years, I’ve seen this process done well and watched...
Over the holiday, I read the book “Rest – Why You Get More Done When You Work Less” by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang. This seemed to be the perfect pairing to time away from work. The book highlights how work and rest are partners for those who lead creative lives....
As 2022 comes to a close, you may be asking yourself, "why should I do a year end review?". Even for those who spend time each year reflecting, sometimes it can be difficult at the end of the year to find the time and space to think about the year gone by. While I can...
Each year, I select a word to guide my ambitions and goals for the year ahead. December is a great time to reflect on what has been accomplished and evaluate how the word guided my year. I consider the impact that it had and start to set the foundation for the next...
Photo Credit: Lori Sullivan Photography Managing time has been studied and benchmarked and analyzed for years. We all find tricks and techniques to do mundane tasks faster with a goal of "finding time" in our day. I'm all behind methods for improving productivity and...
Photo Credit - Lori Sullivan The New Year often brings with it resolutions. Webster's defines a resolution as "a firm decision to do or not to do something." And, many studies indicate that most of us will quit the resolution before the end of January. So, with the...
Photo Credit - Lori Sullivan A new year starts full of possibility. While we are still social distancing and many businesses remain closed, the new year holds the promise of achieving anything you set out to do. I lot of people (myself included) spend some time at the...
Photo Credit - Lori Sullivan I've read and heard a lot about considering your "future self" in your focus "today". Advice tends to mention things like investing for the future, eating well, reading, traveling, getting out of your comfort zone, and much more. I agree...
Photo Credit - Lori Sullivan Photography Years ago, the concept of working on your business vs. in your business got a lot of attention and discussion. The concept was that we are all so busy working "in" the business that we don't spend enough time working "on" the...
Several years ago, I joined an online group who took a picture a day. I was taking classes to get my Photography Certificate and I thought that committing to taking a photo a day would help me work on my skills. While the daily practice has definitely got me to try...