24 Ways Your Office Job is Literally Killing You
msn money The stress, long hours, and sedentary nature of your modern office job are sucking the life out of you — literally. And it’s not just the tight deadlines, stress-eaten bagels, and sneezing coworkers that are doing you in. Even your keyboard can be out to get you. From…
READ MORE
How to Save Two Hours a Day
Ernest Hemingway was known to awaken between 5:30 and 6 o’clock in the morning, without fail, no matter how much he drank the night before. Perhaps old Hem was immune to hangovers. He also knew he had to do the first things first. In a 1958 interview with the The Paris Review, Hemingway said,…
READ MORE
3 Steps to Turning Every Problem into a Golden Opportunity
Think back to the last time you went to the beach. Perhaps the winds kicked up, blowing a speck of sand into your eye. Cautiously, you cleaned it out. Problem solved. But an oyster looks at the grain of sand as an opportunity, not a problem. Slowly, sometimes taking as long…
READ MORE3 Critical Steps to Bust Through Roadblocks
Sometimes feel like I spend a lot of time and energy trying to reach my goals. I bet you do too. Think of the top 3 goals you’re working on right now. Fitness, Nutrition, Stress Reduction, Relationships, Career… Isn’t it awesome to dream big? I get excited about life when I think…
READ MOREImmediate (and Fast) Stress Reducers
Paralyzing stress. It happens to all of us. I’ve been there. Sitting at my desk emails flooding my inbox, “to-do” tasks piling up, and the time to complete all I’ve set out to accomplish rapidly dwindling away. Have you been here too? Feeling overwhelmed? Needing to crank it into high gear…
READ MORE
3 Extreme Productivity Tips
Now that we’re more than halfway through the year, you’ve probably realized that you need more ways to get better results, faster, if you want to achieve your goals. To help you achieve these objectives and to start the third quarter with a bang, I’ve put together three tips on…
READ MORE
A Quick-Start Guide to Avoiding Information Overload
Admit it: you’ve been there. You’re researching and learning and finding information, but you feel as if you’re digging yourself into a hole. There are conflicting opinions and conclusionless debates, and you don’t know what advice to take or what to believe. The worst part is that you genuinely want…
READ MORE
How to Save Yourself From Early Death
A major health epidemic is afflicting 70 million Americans… and your doctor is completely ignoring it (as usual). It’s… Killing your sex drive Causing memory loss Causing cancer Causing hips and necks to break Damaging your heart Increasing the likelihood you’ll die in the next decade Economists think it costs…
READ MORE
Becoming the Person You Really Are
Life. What’s the point? It seems everyone you ask has a different answer. And that’s totally cool, because the only answer that matters is your answer. The trick is to find an answer around which you can build a lifestyle that gets you to your goals. But isn’t life an…
READ MORE
How To Make Tough Decisions Easy
About 20 years ago, a professor of philosophy introduced me to an idea I have used to clarify my thinking, cut through confusion, and make business decisions time and again. You may find it as useful as I do. We were having lunch, and the conversation turned to Nietzsche, the…
READ MOREThe World’s Most Powerful Women 2015
MSN Money: RANK DETERMINED BY MONEY, MEDIA MOMENTUM, INFLUENCE AND IMPACT. The 2015 Most Powerful Women list features eight heads of state (plus one monarch) who run nations with a combined GDP of $9 trillion and a total population of over 600 million — including the newly elected Polish Prime…
READ MORE
How to Gain a Sense of Your Own Mortality
I woke up this morning in pain again. I injured my shoulder wrestling a few weeks ago, and it doesn’t seem to be healing. Certainly not as fast as it would have healed when I was in my 30s.
This is one of the many execrable things that happen to you when you reach 60. But it’s hardly the worst.
READ MORE