In this post I’ll be explaining how I have built my ability to focus. This post is one of the simplest I will write, but the ideas are incredibly valuable. When I follow these ideas, I can easily focus for hours in a day and produce large…
When I started my virtual assistant company a few years ago, I knew the most important thing we had to do after assisting our clients, was hiring as many talented people as we could find.
It’s very tempting to fall into this kind of thinking.
A Recovering Workaholic’s Insight on Time Management
By Nel Opolski
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: writing is tough to get right. There are many…
Many people try to apply “The Secret” and #LawOfAttraction and it doesn’t work for…
Productivity is how you find more time in your day to do what you love, and…
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and…
A while back, a colleague reached out to me with a problem:
“It’s my first day at (my new client) and the project that I am is really lacking in the project management department. Problem is, they don’t know it. The…
“I’ll do it tomorrow.”
Originally published on LessDoing.com September 3rd, 2015
The stoic journaling concept is: you reflect…
This post comes from a Morning Pages entry at the end of last week. I had started Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit. In it, she names and pushes back against her fears around creating, and…
Social media #NoToSocialMedia #BigNo #BiNgO
Few days back when I visited my hometown, ( Yes! I am part of the “bloody Monday” gang – corporate life) I realised how I have been spoiling most of my time by not doing anything productive.
We are about to be flooded with ads and advice challenging us to be our selves in “2018.” <cue the eye roll>
Gyms will be packed. Budgets will be tallied. Houses will be cleaned.
A Self-Sabotaging Culture of Interruption
Do you live in a self-sabotaging culture of interruption? Do you find people incessantly stopping by your desk under the guise of “collaboration”? Worse yet… are you the culprit?
If you often find yourself putting a full days work with little to show for it…
I agree with the premise of the article, but I don’t think you need to burn your bridges or even make decisions in a “peak” state.
People with day jobs who want to turn a side hustle into a full time hustle should absolutely prove their concept first before quitting their day job.
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I am making a wallpaper for my iPad with this… Every time I hear “but”, “I can’t learn that” or “I’m too old” (my FAV), I’m showing it. I have a feeling I’m going to be sharing it a lot! Thanks Darius!
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I discovered this under-utilized but powerful feature on my iPhone. The “Moon” button (also know as “Do Not Disturb”). I have this button on all the time and it has changed my relationship with my phone.
The 8 hour work day is said to be the most outdated approach in the current scenario , As the…
There are two pictures of me that I think are stellar. I’m 6 or 7 in them. In one I’m missing a front…
Originally published at apastuhov.com on November 28, 2017.
Ever had one of those weekends where you’re sure that you’ve hit a new low? Your Monday consists of sending “I’m sorry” group chats…
Fellow Spark developers, hearken to me! How fast is your Spark development cycle? Slow? Really slow? You could…
There is new research that suggests being a morning person or night person is actually in our DNA. But just like everything else you can teach your mind and body to overcome this and become a morning person if you happen to be a night person. Below…
At least once in your life, you have said it. “I am a failure”. We have all said it, everyone for a different reason. Maybe you got…
No Doubt, Slack is the best IM for small teams. But there are few micro interactions missing…
There is a finite number we grow as humans. A limit to how much we can eat. How much power we can generate at a given time? But one ‘thing’ that has nearly limitless potential is your area of comfort or your ability to adapt to new things.
I must be honest here: I took many years to beat my natural tendency to procrastinate as more as…
3 simple steps
Recently I read ‘In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto’ by Michael Pollan. Here’s how it starts:
Best backup for Mac Solution: Carbon Copy Cloner
I always feel compelled to share this message as a public service announcement every time this software saves me from failed drives, incompatible updates or just plain old user error.
One of my most used Alfred features is triggering system commands from the keyboard. This saves me a lot of mouse clicks. I can empty the trash, force quit apps, lock, logout, restart, or shutdown my Mac right from the keyboard.
Yesterday I wrote about building my new writing habit.
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Coaching often requires listening to people discuss how inferior they feel to the “type A” people in…
It’s my birthday, which can be a good time to reflect.
I was up way too late last night. 11:18 to be exact. My alarm started going off at 3:30 this…
It is estimated that 92% of new year’s resolutions fail. Why would something so important as a resolution, or important goal…
Communicating in Groups
By: Amy N. Pasqua
Working in a group will always be part of our lives. From class group work in middle school to collaborating with your colleagues in the business world, you have to…
Your takeaway is key.
We are the problem. We know what’s distracting us **cough** Netflix **cough** yet, we allow these distractions to win, because it’s easier.
Many times, the right decision and the hard one are the same.
If we truly want to succeed, we have to control these distractions and not let them control us.
When you hear about people ‘playing games’ at work you probably think about the negative connotations. Your mind wanders to a few examples you have where you dealt with shifty people who connived and manipulated their way into a position of power or influence. You probably cringe at the…
I hopped from one site to the other, engrossed on finding the perfect formula to downsize and declutter. It is one of those days when I felt…
Herramienta productiva para la brindar soporte y enseñar a otros
For most us, we don’t understand the concept of how important time is as a kid. We usually just go on about our…
Here are the top 5 must have organizational skills to succeed at your workplace.
Planning is a needed workplace skill, and it is particularly important as person advances into more supervisory or…
Couldn’t agree with this more.
I think, because we live in an instantaneous society, we expect things to happen quickly. We expect the thirty second movie montage.
Plan. Act. Assess. Adjust. Repeat.
Eventually, our perseverance pays off.
Thanks for sharing!
Next Generation Employee
This is the time of year to act. Every month you should be focusing your efforts and mentally laying out your plan of attack. Those who hold New Years resolutions or push for once a year goal setting, just aren’t me. We won’t talk about what not to do here but what is easily the most effective way to…
When you take responsibility, you’ll also begin to “embrace the suck.”
You’ll stop expecting things to be easy and welcome the challenge to succeed.
Sometimes you miss the mark, miss the goal, miss the deadline. And miss a day for writing.
Not because I couldn’t, I was physically away in a company and on the road, so writing yesterdays blog was a miss. I did remembered to write it at about 2 a.m., but deadline…
At any given moment, there is a single essential task that would move the needle significantly. Most of the time, that task is boring and hard. At any given moment, there are also a lot of secondary tasks that provide only marginal value. Those secondary tasks are fun and easy. Focusing…
Every single day, millions of people romanticize about going on vacation. They sit at their desks, thinking about where they want to go to next. Talk with their partner about all the things they can do at the destination. How long they would be…
Most marbles manufacturers know that the kitchen and restroom are prime areas for the establishment of materials like granite marble, limestone and many more. These stones likewise show up in different territories of the home as well, for example, home bars, head…
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I often feel the same way.
We have all heard the old adage “Plan your work, and work your plan” but how many of us actually know how to plan…
There is a common phrase that goes, “You don’t realize how much you’ll miss something until it’s gone.” This holds true for a lot of things, and it especially holds true for time. Time is the epitome of our world. Chores, responsibilities, and school work all take time; so how can anyone finish…
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