Time Management: Balance Goals with Down Time

Short Term Goals and Down Time Make for a Happy, Productive Worker “A project or task will expand to fill the time allotted to complete it.” That’s one version of Parkinson’s Law. It is routinely stated in ways to suggest that bureaucracies,...
7 Things to Do Other than Waiting

7 Things to Do Other than Waiting

If you’re like me you hate waiting. You’ve taken some action on the notion that had been simmering in your head. You made your move. You put it out there. You put the project proposal in the mail. You’ve finally scribbled the last item on the to-do list. You hung up...

When Your Kid Teaches You To Follow Your Bliss

Follow Your Bliss Like a Kid I like to think of myself as the kind of guy who’s all about “follow your bliss” and open to other people’s crazy dreams. In fact, I would go so far as to say that I like to think that I sometimes relish creating...
A Blog About How to Achieve Work Life Balance

A Blog About How to Achieve Work Life Balance

Achieving Work-Life Balance: Changing Lifestyle and Perspective The quest for work life balance begins by looking around and wondering: When are my work and life going more accurately reflect the ideas I have in my head? Is this much of my Life really supposed to be...

My Morning Routine, Productivity Be Damned

The Morning Routine I Just Discovered I Have Tim Ferriss and Pat Flynn (two of my favorite podcasters) agree of the importance of the morning routine. Productivity begins in the morning and your routine sets the tone for your day in many ways: nutrition, exercise,...
Paying Taxes is Patriotic

Paying Taxes is Patriotic

I paid my taxes yesterday – yes, right on Tax Day. I owed a lot this year and had to write big checks from a bank account that is now pretty much depleted. And I know there are a lot of people, many of my friends among them, who would expect me to come over to...