Ok … you have all your productivity tools in place. You have a rock-solid time management system. You have a seemingly-workable plan. But something isn’t quite right. You feel that, now, more than ever, you’re being stretched beyond your limits.
Maybe what’s missing isn’t all the tools and techniques. Maybe it’s your strategy.
When it comes to happiness – or enthusiasm, or friendliness – are Midwesterners different?
I am reminded by the folks over at Freakonomics (thanks Melissa Lafsky) that today is World Sauntering Day.
Yes, it’s one of those freaky (no pun intended) American holidays that originated in the 1970s when W.T. Rabe, a one-time publicist in Detroit, a director of public relations at Lake Superior State University, and manager of a hotel in Mackinac Island, Michigan, created a publicity stunt to encourage visitors and resident of tthe island to saunter, and to enjoy the beauty around them. If you’ve ever been to Mackinac Island, you can see why Rabe’s campaign was so successful.
Bob Sutton, creator of the No Asshole Rule, posted Wednesday 8 suggestions for “enduring and triumphing against abusive bosses and co-workers” titled Latest Tips for Surviving Workplace Assholes.
Negative people, places, and situations can have a detrimental effect on your life. Similarly to seemingly insurmountable workplace obstacles and situations, in the form of people and situations, there are no instant fixes for these sorts of problems in our private lives, either.
Most people think they know themselves pretty well, but how well do you really know yourself? Do you know exactly how you feel about certain things and why, or do you tend to judge how you feel by how you think you should feel? Are you comfortable with your feelings and the “inner you,” or is that uncomfortable?
Getting to know yourself may be a little different from getting to know the new neighbor or that attractive co-worker in your building, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be harder to really get acquainted with you.
In a word – yes (if you’re part of the statistical average).
If happiness increases with age, does unhappiness increase as well?
Why do people experience greater happiness as they age?
Following are a few of the many myths about life balance. Overcoming these ways of thinking often takes time, but can be accomplished through simple paradigm shifts. Simply change a few basic, often long-held assumptions, and you’ll be well on your way.
I’ve talked and written many times about efficiency. As a result, I was intrigued by this comment over at lifehacker:
“My problem wasn’t that I was insufficiently efficient. The problem was
that I was way too overextended. I had taken on more than even a very
efficient person could handle. Efficiency is great, but it can only get
you so far.”
I understand the problem. Many of us find (or should I say “get ourselves into”) ourselves overextended, over strained, and overstressed at some point in our lives, maybe even at this very moment.
In these times, is the solution to our troubles that we need to be more efficient? I think not.
Sociologist Paul Ray wrote a book titled “The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World.” Ray researched a movement called the “grass
Opportunity Cost is one of those concepts that all of us think we understand, but we’re often unable to calculate the real dollars involved.
In its simplest terms, Opportunity Cost can be defined as follows:
In order to gain something, you must lose something else.
How does, and should, this factor into the decisions we make in our everyday lives?
Jerry Seinfeld, as told to Brad Isaac, said that: “in order to accomplish something you have to work at it every day. Get one of
Sometimes the things that you plan for are interrupted by the unexpected, unwanted things. Often, we have misguided expectations of things, but sometimes that can
According to Robert A. Emmons, people who feel gratitude experience higher levels of happiness and joy in their lives, along with being in better health
The hedonic treadmill theory explains our never ending pursuit of happiness in reference to someone trying to stay on a treadmill; they try and try,
Positive psychology can be defined as focusing on what is right with people as opposed to focusing on what is wrong, or negative. In the
What single obstacle repeatedly gets in the way of you getting the job done? For the most part, it’s not knowing when enough is enough.
In a recent survey it was stated that Blackberry technology has improved on executive and employee productivity, but they have also had a negative impact
What do you do when an idea clicks in your mind? Some suggestions are: apply it then and there, write it down and work on
