“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” — Paul J. Meyer Boosting your Productivity If you’re like most other people in the world, then you can use a boost to your productivity. For whatever reason, you get sidetracked. Things seem to interrupt your day and you have …
Top 10 Rich Habits: What the 1% Do Differently
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” — Benjamin Franklin Developing Rich Habits The 1%: glorified by the media, touted by corporations, and cultivated in elite social circles, the global personification of the rich is nothing new. Ever since the dawn of modern economies, the …
Overcoming Writer’s Block By Building Better Habits
“I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.” — Ernest Hemingway What is Writer’s Block? One of the greatest hurdles that writers have had since the dawn of the written word …
How to Harness the Pareto Principle
“Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation, there is sure to be failure.” — Confucius Understanding the Pareto Principle The Pareto Principle – also known as the 80/20 rule and the law of the vital few – states that 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. The principle was named after Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who …
Setting S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals: 7 Steps to Achieving Any Goal
Goal Setting the S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Way Goal setting is an essential part of life. We all need goals in order to help illuminate the road to our hopes and our dreams. They help to invoke a more visceral, tangible, and actionable path to what we desire in life. When we write out goals, they become more real. They help us to visually embrace …