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Overwhelmed?

Inundated?

Productivity Issues?

Stressing Out?

Chaos bound?

Spending your time trying to “catch up?

Are you operating under the antiquated illusion that the panacea is just a matter of working harder. If this is still a belief that you are maintaining, allow me to give you some sobering information-

YOU CAN NO LONGER WORK HARD ENOUGH TO CATCH UP!

If you’re coming into work at 7:00 A.M., why not come in at 5:00 A.M.? If you’re working until 7:00 P.M., why not stay until 9:00 or 10:00 P.M.? In fact, just bring a cot and pillow to the office and keep a photo of the family nearby so that you don’t forget what they look like.

We have passed the point of “working harder” in the pursuit of staying on top of our work. While software is something that we cannot live without, most folks are under the assumption that it’s just that next piece of software that will get them into a long sought after “proactive” mode. Continue reading →

So you find yourself sitting up at night writing out your infamous ‘To Do’ list. You jotted down twelve items that you want to knock out at work tomorrow. Now tell me, if this new day is a somewhat typical day, how many on your trusty ‘To Do’ list were actually accomplished…two, three, maybe four?

Not only does this lead to stress and frustration, it can be quite demoralizing. The truth be told, after a number of such experiences, it is not surprising that a person just stops making the lists altogether.

In its place we just go to work each day reciting the following mantra: “Dear Lord, please just get me through the day.” Not a very pro-active stance, is it? Continue reading →

Let’s face it, there has always been stress associated with our lives. Yet, it is important to acknowledge that there are basically two forms of stress. We are all too familiar with the negative kind, however let us acknowledge that there is the positive variety as well. For example, remember the moment that you fell in love (interesting how we use the term “fell” to describe this feeling). Anyway, that was a stressful experience, albeit a positive one.

The very derivation of the word ‘disease’ is understood by simply placing a hyphen between the first ‘s’ and ‘e’, thus creating the term: ‘Dis-Ease’. Continue reading →

Are you one of those people who continually shift your tasks around doing the things you enjoy most first and putting off the ones you don’t enjoy until later…much later?

Do you avoid completing certain projects until the last minute when your back is up against the wall? Do you keep seeing the same items turning up on your “To Do List” day after day after day?

Are you one of those people who insists you work better under pressure? Then you are probably one of the millions of people in this country who suffer from procrastination and I do mean “suffer”. Continue reading →

Does the idea of having E-mails, of both the ‘Read’ and ‘Unread’ categories, being zero at the end of each and every day seem beyond belief to you? And I am neither speaking about a mass delete nor about having such a massive accumulation that one simply makes still another archival folder and “dumps” them all in, regardless of their status.

In order to reduce the massive amounts of e-mail, the following procedure has worked miracles for many thousands of folks, allowing them to get to that magical number of ‘ZERO’ each and every day this way. Continue reading →

I contend that, virtually, each and every day in your work you are either a sabotageur or sabotagee. While you most likely find this accusation to be startling, you are about to understand its relevance and reality.

Imagine that you have been working for a week on a proposal to present to a prospective client. If accepted, this would be the largest contract ever brought into your firm. You have made the final touches on it this evening. Prior to leaving the office you place the proposal in your boss’s in-tray with a note attached asking for her review and blessing. Continue reading →