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How many times do you speak like this?
“Hey Steve, I understand you didn’t follow-through on the customer order yesterday. Can you tell me what happened?”
THEN – when Steve is working on his response, YOU chime in with possible reasons!
“Was something taking too much time instead? Did you forget? Did your assistant drop the ball?”
TIP: Don’t answer a question you just asked someone! Let them answer.
Are you that person who lives by the quote: “Life Is Uncertain; Eat Dessert First?” In other...
Starting the new year right may mean getting a solid footing on the process of ‘STARTING’ altogether. I have written about how starting helps with the finishing in a previous post – so I am backing up a bit now, and addressing the ‘starting’ process itself.
So now you work from home part of the week and bounce into the office the rest of it. Unless you got highly skilled at making this work, you may have some stress and overwhelm with this dynamic. For some, the transition is challenging and for others a welcomed change of scenery. If you are the former, there are some ways to make the best use of your time while you are working at home.
Many of us are getting a better handle on keeping this whole ‘work from home’ thing working. I wanted to share a few tips in a new format to help you even more. I figure, you are probably as busy as I have been and reading an entire blog post may not be possible right now. Hopefully you can watch this and take a tip or two to make your life just a little easier.
That’s right – you don’t have to be a Productivity Expert to know that those New Year’s resolutions won’t happen anyway – so don’t bother. Seriously. I have a better idea. Like you, I have made list after list of the things I am going to change for the coming year. And like me you probably get off to a great start for the first few weeks (if you are lucky as only 20% stay in the game past 30 days) and then those resolutions are out the window.
It has come to my attention that there are several really important skills that the average 20-something doesn’t acquire while in college. Those who don’t go to college may acquire these skills earlier even, simply due to necessity. But these skills are lacking nonetheless and to be a smart, degreed individual unable to manage life as we know it – is a bit of a tragedy. Those of you older than this demographic may find these skills useful too.
I am not speaking about the kind of change as in, “change of season,’ or ‘change your mind’ or ‘change who you are,’ but just how change can be a good thing and often a challenging thing – especially when decision-making is not your strong suit.
The Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder epidemic is nothing new to Americans. In fact, in the U.S., about 5% of children suffer from this disorder, and an ADHD diagnosis has been handed out to 5.2 million children between the ages of 13 and 17.