Do you ever find yourself wishing there were more hours in the day, because there is “never enough time” to get everything done? Do you sometimes feel that you are juggling too many obligations over the course of a day?
Losing my job in the last recession of the last century, I discovered first hand the power of creating your own luck. A week later, I decided to locate an interim position while I looked for a "real” one. Accepting a temporary position at minimum wage in an industry I knew little about, I decided the way to enjoy the position was to learn everything I could and contribution all that I could...
If you control your time, you control your life, says Alan Lakein (1973). Time is a precious commodity; everyone gets an equal share but we use it very differently. We also look at time very differently. About 57% of us are present and future oriented, 33% are mainly future oriented, 9% are present oriented and only 1% focus on the past.
This week it occurred to me that I was violating one of the key themes that I so often espouse to my clients!
There I sat at my desk trying to decide whether I should work on the web site or finish an article for the newsletter...
Today's executives are learning that taking more time off from work for family togetherness and parenting chores leads to more, not less, productivity and satisfaction.