My nephew Alex has been a student manager of his college basketball team for the last 4 years. It's filled with a lot of responsibilities and navigating a variety of personalities and demands on his time.
Now as a senior, he is the head student manager and this past weekend his team won a spot in the NCAA Tournament. It's a dream
I had a great question from a participant at a recent Meetup Group: How do you know if you're doing enough? This man had a lot of evidence that he wasn't doing enough to get things done. To move himself and his projects forward. But the more we discussed it the more I realized something: This question showing up in his mind was his biggest piece of
For a long time, I focused my coaching practice around helping people with time management and organization. From the beginning, I was less interested in giving people strategies and much more interested in helping them see how they find their own innate strategies. Teaching people to fish versus giving them fish made a lot more sense to me. What I
It sounds reasonable that you would need to have clarity about how to start a project before actually starting it. But I haven't found this to be true. In fact I think the opposite is much more true. Back in 2007, I started out as a professional organizer. This was the focus of my business before I dove headlong into productivity and procrastination
How Your Goals Are Holding You Back and What You Can Do Instead There’s a pervasive notion in our culture that the way to move life and work forward is through setting and achieving goals. Not only should you set specific goals but you should write them down as well. A Harvard Study is cited as the reason behind this goal writing strategy – and it
https://youtu.be/SxrxXB8Ze4E Click on the video or here to watch The Two Ways We Get Things Done (and Why One Works Better). In this quick video [4:31] you will discover: How we work hard to find the "right" thinking so that we can get the "right" behavior. An invisible way you are already getting things done - that doesn't involve a lot of
Whether you are a student cramming last-minute for an exam or a professional buried in overdue reports – the chatter floating through your mind can often sound like: “Why did I wait until the last minute to get this done?!” “How do I get myself to stop procrastinating and start ahead of time?” “When am I ever going to learn?” This line of
In this article I offer three key distinctions that will make your to-do lists more useful in actually getting things done. Generally people assume that if they’ve written down three or three hundred tasks on a piece of paper or in a digital document – they’ve created a to-do list. Not so fast. The label “to-do list” has become an all-encompassing
https://youtu.be/EdbfeazciIo In today's video [4:40] I share 3 Keys to Effective Time Management. My approach is holistic and highly customized. Think of this not as it's own system or strategy but a way to discover your own best systems and strategies. Click on the video to discover: The S.P.A. Framework (Self-care, Priorities, and Anchors) that
Do you ever sit back and realize just how much you get done in a day? You are moving from morning until night and yet for some reason there is an undercurrent of anxiety that you can't seem to shake. It never feels like you are doing enough. And so you pile on more. You say yes to more. You push yourself to work faster and harder. You attempt to
