The Major Danger of Confusing Projects and Goals
When it comes to setting personal or professional goals, how do you determine what makes your list?
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How to Make Your Weekend a WOW Experience
Every year comes freshly stocked with 104 weekend days. That’s 28 percent of all available days in the year. It’s like a full quarter!
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Why Sandbagging Your Goals Kills Your Productivity
I’m a fairly conservative person but not when it comes to setting new goals for myself or for my business.
Michael Hyatt
Why Skipping Lunch Is Bad for You and Worse for Business
Did you skip lunch last week—either by gobbling down something at your desk or forgoing food altogether? The odds are good that you did.
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How to Make Your Non-Fiction Reading More Productive
I’m a serious reader and have been most of my life. Most leaders I know are. We realize there’s a major ROI on time dedicated to reading.
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When and How to Use Habits to Achieve Your Goals
Great results don’t just happen. You don’t usually drift to a destination you would have chosen.
Michael Hyatt
6 Powerful Apps for Managing Social Media with a Team
Social media remains one of the most efficient ways for leaders to get heard and make a difference.
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How to Avoid 3 Pitfalls of Goal-Setting
I’ve been an advocate of goal-setting for decades. Most successful people I know are. They set big goals and recommend others do as well.
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Why You Should Never Start With Your Most Difficult Task
Years ago, I heard a motivational speaker encourage his audience to “eat that frog.” The line has a long history.
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10 Research-Backed Ways to Create the Breakthrough You Need
Leadership and entrepreneurial breakthroughs depend on creativity. But we don’t always feel very creative, do we?
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3 Ways Email Can Sabotage Your Leadership
When I was the CEO at Thomas Nelson, one of our authors was frustrated. In response to a disappointing sales report, he fired off a blistering email to one of…
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Why It Pays to Invest in Greater Productivity
We all have things we do really well. In our businesses, these are usually the tasks that drive revenue.
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True Confessions of a Productivity Geek
I’ve been a serious student of productivity for a couple decades now. As the primary income earner in a family of seven, I had to be.
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Are You Ready to Join the Productivity Revolution?
The way we’re doing productivity isn’t working. I hear stories and regrets that confirm it whenever I talk with entrepreneurs, executives, and other busy…
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8 Reasons You’re Exhausted, Overwhelmed, and Unproductive
I don’t have to go to the doctor very often. But when I do go, I notice they follow the same routine.
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How to Become a Morning Person
We’ve all heard the benefits of becoming a morning person. But how do you become one? In this post I provide a nine steps you can take starting today.
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Are Your Friends and Coworkers Killing Your Energy?
There’s only so much time in a day—just twenty-four hours last I checked. And there’s no optional upgrade or booster pack available. Time is fixed.
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Why Not Architect Your Own Life?
We usually take our workplaces for granted, don’t we? But skyscrapers are colossal achievements.
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Dial Back the Crazy by Spring Cleaning Your Calendar
It’s that time of year, right? Spring cleaning. It’s an annual tradition that goes back forever. And most of us get a piece of the action.
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The 37 Best Business Books I’ve Ever Read
I have been in and around the publishing business my entire professional life. So I understand the potential impact of a great book.
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The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make With Executive Assistants
I’ve worked with several executive assistants over the years, and I have found it is a make-or-break relationship when it comes to my success.
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How to Blog if You Don’t Have Time
If you want your message to reach the maximum number of people, a blog is hands down the best means I know. But who’s got time?
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4 Strategies for Cutting Your To-Do List in Half
Because it will take longer than two minutes to write the action down on your to-do list, organize it, get back up to speed later, and complete the task. ...
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How to Use Templates to Get More Done in Less Time
For years, I have used the concept of “templating” to improve my productivity. The idea is that you create a template for any task that you find yourself doing…
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