In the early days of working less, I would go into anxiety overload and sometimes not be able to accomplish anything because I was so anxious about being able to complete everything. Needless to say, this did not work out all that well.
I did a really fun and unique interview today with Mike Vardy of EffTD™. Mike’s satircal sense of style and humor was a real hoot.
The podcast will be up shortly.
Last fall, the Ohio State Buckeyes football team made the news not for what they did on the field, but for the tactics they used to motivate players. A video was created and disseminated to the captive audience full of jabs, jeers, and ridicule.
Were the coaches effective in motivating their players? What can we learn from The Ohio State University?
If you don’t think of yourself as creative, I think you’re missing a great opportunity to grow as a person – to become who you really are and who you want to be.
Emotional maturity is not something that is automatically given to someone when they turn 18. Emotional maturity is something that we must develop in our lives by knowing how to respond to situations in a mature and responsible manner.
by David Bohl “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” This proverb, made famous in the 1980 horror film The Shining, is
It’s easy to say we want to lead a life free of stress and anxiety, but achieving it is something altogether different. In our modern world it seems that stress and anxiety are part of everyday life. How Do We Find Serenity amidst all the chaos? Find out how in my article.
A few weeks ago I wrote about the importance of planning and keeping your New Year’s resolutions. Now that we are a few weeks into
Most of live our whole lives, to some extent, in this half-waking, half-conscious way. More…We know what we’re doing, but we don’t think about it. We don’t stop to consider whether this is the right job for us, whether this friend is dragging us down, whether we need to spend more time on what we really love and enjoy.
A nationwide survey sheds some light as to what people think will help them achieve their business goals in 2008. What made the top of the list? Achieving a work-life balance!
This should come to no surprise to many of you reading this. It seems we are all working longer hours and spending more time trying to keep up with technology rather than using it to help us achieve productivity gains. We’ve become victims of our own success; often times forgetting about those people we share a house with — our family.
There is some truth behind the saying trust your gut instinct. Sometimes our gut instincts can be wrong but I do believe there is something
Over at Dumb Little Man I’ve created a post about determining success. Check out 20 qualities for a successful life.
How do you change the way you think? It’s easy – stop thinking negatively! Ok, so maybe it isn’t easy as all that, but for many of us we have way too many ways of thinking that always involve something negative. We just know that if we do something outside the box, we are going to fail miserably at it. You see what you are doing don’t you? You are using a negative paradigm to set yourself up for failure before you even attempted to do anything!
If you’ve heard the parable of the boiled frog you know that you can only boil a frog if you put it in cold water
“Play to your strengths.” How many times have you heard that one? How many times have you heard it, and within one day had to do something you knew was not a strength of yours, because you felt you had no choice?
I’ve been frightened in my life. We all have. But you know the most frightening thing I ever did?
It was giving up my job as a financial trader, working eighty to a hundred hours a week.
Are you having trouble weeding the increidble pile of self-help information out there?
I was. That is until I devised my own plan.
Design your very own personal development plan.
David Bohl and Karen Ellenbecker team up to help Americans take a more active role in their finances and investment futures. In the past ten
