How to Save Two Hours a Day
Hit snooze and lose. Do that, and you’ve already lost the day. For the day is won in the morning. If you don’t get off to a good start, you’ll never have a chance to catch up. Right now you’re getting buried in minutiae, aren’t you? Or at least that’s…
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How to Have a Great Meeting
Think back to a time where you had to sit through a boring, wasteful meeting. Maybe you’ve had one already today. Recently my friend, BK, told me about a nightmare meeting he experienced with high-paid television studio executives where he’s consulting on a TV show. “It was the worst meeting…
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How To Get More Done
When I worked as personal trainer in my early 20s, I noticed something very unusual about my most successful clients. These clients almost effortlessly achieved their goals and built the bodies that they wanted. How? They created a strong personal philosophy that made decision-making easy and stress-free. They planned their…
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Your Perfect Day Revealed
Good morning. You’ve awoken naturally, five minutes before your alarm clock. You kiss your spouse lightly so as not to wake them, and slide stealthily out from under the covers. Quietly, you exit the bedroom, get cleaned up and settle into your personal space designated for your morning ritual. You…
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Why Self-Help is Mostly Shelf-Help
Americans spend over $11 Billion a year on “self-help” products. But I call it Shelf-Help — because that’s where most of it goes… on the shelf, along with all the other stuff you’ve bought. If you’re like most of my clients, you’ve spent anywhere from $5000 to $50,000 in the…
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The Power of Delay
As a child, I spent every Sunday morning at First St. John’s Lutheran Church. Each week, our family would go through the same routine. It started with a bath, followed by my mom painfully combing the ‘tangles’ out of my naturally curly hair. She’d then dress me in my Sunday…
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The Power of “Magic Time” for Stressed Out Working Parents
I was a mess: a stressed out, unhealthy time bomb just waiting to explode. As the family’s sole breadwinner, I let my responsibility to provide for my husband and 2-year-old son weigh too heavily on my shoulders. Simply loving your job doesn’t always translate to a stress-free existence, especially when…
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The Problem with Habits
The old Ballantyne farm where I grew up lies in the fertile lands of Southwestern Ontario. On our property you’ll be treated to a great bounty of what Mother Nature has to offer. There are rolling hills where my father planted corn, flat stretches of fields where he grew his…
READ MOREThe Crux of the Issue
By crux of the issue, I’m referring to the point or points upon which success or failure rests. It’s important to resist the temptation to get sidetracked by peripheral issues that cannot yield a payoff no matter what their outcome. I believe that the reason so many people are late…
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How to Be More Productive
I’m the type of person who tends to be a perfectionist. It is my natural instinct to keep working on a project until it is as good as it possibly can be. Perhaps you can even relate to this yourself? Over the years as a business owner, I’ve learned that…
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Are You An Information Junkie?
I hadn’t seen Dave in almost 20 years. He was my dentist when we moved to Boca Raton in the early 1980s. He continued to take care of K and the kids after we moved to Delray Beach 10 years later, but I opted for dental care closer to home.…
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How to Get More Done in Less Time
One of my favorite things to do back out on the farm is to take ol’ Bally the Dog for a swim. Now the great thing about chocolate labs is that they are up for a good swim 365 days a year, even in the dead of winter. So we’ll…
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