4 Musts For Significant Productivity

Work less, achieve more. Sounds great, but is it realistic? Yeah, actually, it is–and simpler than you might expect.
 
A few months ago I test-drove a truckload of tricks, tactics and tools that promised to add hours to my day. I devoured Tim Ferris’ The Four Hour Work Week and Todd Duncan’s Time Traps. I downloaded [...]

Top 10 Business, Faith & Faith-at-Work Podcasts (Part 2)

Alrighty, then: Here’s the second (and final) installment of podcasts that send my gray cells a-dancing . . .
Sales Guy’s Quick and Dirty Tips For Getting The Deal Done
I confess: As an introvert, the word “sales” used to scare the daylights out of me. But I’m learning we’re all in sales, no matter what we [...]

Top 10 Business, Faith & Faith-at-Work Podcasts (Part I)

If you made me choose between eating and being able to listen to my favorite podcasts for a day, that’d be a tough one for me. They’re my brain food, and consuming them makes me smarter, wiser and happier.
One simple (yet very, very powerful) success principle is choosing carefully whom we listen to and what goes into [...]

Save Time (And Effort) By Empowering Others

Those of us with a strong need to please (or to be in control) often are bogged down by people who seemingly depend on us to get anything done.
A dear relative, who somehow thinks I have amazing Internet powers, used to email me: “Please search XYZ on the Web and let me know what you [...]

Making Work Matter

A couple of years ago, I had the privilege of eating breakfast with a local business hotshot. The whole thing was arranged by my boss as a mentoring opportunity. During our conversation, the polished lady sitting across from me asked about my career objectives. I told her about my desire to help people apply biblical principles [...]

Redefining Significance & Impact

Every now and then we need someone to remind us of the obvious, and then it hits us like a brand-new revelation.
Kinda reminds me of the time I met with an executive and, upon realizing a mistake she’d made, she smacked herself on the head and said, “Duh! Should’ve had a V8.”  I think you and I [...]

It’s all about Whom you know…

I’m a list junkie. Dig through my purse, laptop, desk or whatever book I happen to be reading at the time, and you’ll find about a dozen lists: some typed, some neatly written in my planner, others scribbled on random pieces of paper.
During the past few months, I’ve compiled a long list of personal goals, [...]

New Career Skill: Effective Confrontations

Years ago I was promoted above my supervisor, who deeply resented the fact that I leapfrogged her on the chain of command.
The unusual promotion was both unexpected and an answer to prayer. My first reaction was to lock myself in the bathroom and jump up and down for a few minutes, silently mouthing, “Thank you, [...]

How Counterfeit Freedom Is Keeping You Bound (and what marshmallows have to do with it)

The other day my sister, Alice, called about a friend’s impulsive decision and its destructive consequences to his life and those around him – to which I responded, “I bet he ate the marshmallow.”
Let’s rewind to a week earlier: Alice, who’s a chaplain, told me about a scientific experiment involving young children and marshmallows. Each [...]

How to Be Remarkable

I have a bad, bad habit. Every couple of months or so, I conduct risky home-made experiments on my hair, typically involving an assortment of chemicals and scissors. Occasionally, there are accidents. You’d think I would have learned after the first five times I turned my hair green or caused chunks to fall out. I [...]