This post originally appeared on the iDoneThis blog. Whenever I realize I’ve been running ragged, I know I’ve fallen into a rut of reactive rather than proactive work. Instead of going about my day ...

Those are the words I hear spoken so often, telling me exactly what someone is not going to do. Life presents to us a lot of things we all know are important – family, relationships, health, financial ...

I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings. I wish I had stayed in ...

When Bonnie Ware, a palliative care nurse who looks after terminal patients in the last weeks of their lives, asked what people’s greatest regrets were, 5 answers came up over and over: I wish I’d had ...

A colleague of mine from another college came back from a work/life balance seminar where the speaker focused on four different quadrants in which to divide work. Urgent, Important; Urgent, ...

(This post is the second in an occasional series revisiting classic productivity methods and tools. See the first post, (This post is the second in an occasional series revisiting classic productivity ...

Today is Wednesday, so this post is on outstanding performance. Outstanding performers are well organized. They manage their time, life, space and stress well. In "7 habits of Highly Effective People" ...

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