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Forget Time Management-Instead Notice What Erodes Your MOST Scarce Resource
Let’s face it. Chaos equals exhaustion! Do you imagine more time could ease this problem? Maybe not! Consider that your secret sauce in short supply is not time but rather ENERGY. Every day your limited energy supply is zapped by long hours fulfilling multiple...
Exponentially Grow Your Success Rate with ONE New Habit!
David Allen of Getting Things Done fame says it best, “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” Why? A characteristic of the human brain is limited working memory space. When holding ideas in this limited working memory space, the ideas or thoughts cycle in...
Small Habit Eliminates Big Frustration
Have you ever found yourself dashing out of your office for a meeting and realizing you’re not sure where it’s being held? Have you ever experienced a surge of panic when you’re late leaving for an all-day event and realize you don’t know the address and you’re...
Prioritize: By Default? With Intention?
Can You Relate to Sabrina? Sabrina’s To-Do List: Facilitate a meeting in 1 hour—not prepared Grade and return assignment promised 2 weeks ago Work on “revise and resubmit” article—very hard deadline looming Finalize prep for all-day workshop on Friday (no afternoon...
3-Step Response to Confusion: Triage the CHAOS
Triage fundamentally is about delivering the greatest benefit in a crisis situation where resources are limited. If you’ve watched reruns of M.A.S.H., then you’ve observed an interpretation of US Army medical triage at work in a TV drama set in the Korean Conflict of...
Overwhelmed vs. Overcommitted
It’s just too much! I can’t do any more. I’m overwhelmed. When thoughts of being overwhelmed surface, where does your imagination take you? A. To a parade where your colleagues, family, and friends shower you with confetti and line your path with rose petals...
Technique to Shift from Chaos to Calm
As the semester rushes to an end are you buried in papers, projects, and final exams to grade? The reality of all the things you promised, to yourself and others, now looms larger than ever. If you’ve met all your semester obligations, are satisfied with your research...
Build Integrity with Yourself: Decide & Do
Do you ever find yourself struggling to do what you want to do? Do you regularly fail to honor commitments to yourself? Do you frequently second guess yourself or decide when the designated writing, grading, editing, recording, you-name-it time arrives, the time is...
PROCRASTINATION Is NOT a Character Flaw!
Everyone experiences procrastination—both the enticement it initially offers and then the frustration and regret it delivers afterward. Despite the accusations and negative connotation, procrastination is NOT a character flaw! Rather procrastination is a strategic...