In this day and age, the query, “How are you?” more often than not elicits the response: “Busy.” But are you stuck doing busy work…rather than your life’s work? I feel busy much of the time…with busy work. And that often keeps me from my life’s work. So, I understand. Really. I do. There’s so …
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In the book Eat That Frog! Brian Tracy recommends that you learn to focus on the most challenging tasks first thing in the morning. However, with this strategy, your most important projects sometimes get left until last or don’t get done at all. So, don’t eat the frog first thing in the morning. Instead, eat …
Have you ever felt like you’d lost a whole day, even though you had a plan to be super productive? If so, here’s some good news: You can learn how to reclaim your day. People think of me as amazingly productive. When I look at what I get done each day, I feel the opposite. …
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How often do you take a break from work or your daily responsibilities? Do you ever just relax on a park bench and read or take a nap under a tree in your yard? I have to admit that I don’t do this often enough. I typically feel like I don’t have enough time; I …
Many people think of me as a highly productive person. They ask me how I accomplish so much. They want to know my methodology for getting so much done. I don’t think of myself as a high producer or high performer. Yet, its true that I create a fair amount of written work, such as …
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how hard it can feel to begin something new, like the exercise program I keep saying I will take on or the daily schedule I will keep to. Here’s the thing: Complaining about it only makes it worse. And getting started is the hard part. After you start, …
I’m spending the summer again in New York City with my son. Here, amidst the constant noise and motion, I find it difficult to focus. More than that I see how I am torn in too many directions each day. Because of that, nothing gets accomplished. Let me rephrase that last sentence. Things get accomplished…little …
The other day a friend of mine told me I’d missed an opportunity. I told him he was wrong. Well, maybe it did represent an opportunity–an opportunity for me to lose focus. Right now my life seems filled with distractions from my true goals. It’s difficult for me to remain focused on those goals and …
Today I weeded another section of my extremely large garden. Every spring it becomes totally overgrown with weeds. If I’m not quick, they become shoulder high or taller and go to seed. This year, I got to the job too late. Actually, I have way too many other things going on in my life to …
I feel my life swirling somewhat out of control. Sometimes out of control seems like a good thing, like when you can let go and enjoy a water slide, experiencing the speed and the excitement of simply seeing where you end up. Other times it’s a scary thing, like driving down a mountain with no …
Do you notice when the spirit moves you? I found myself pondering this question about a week ago amidst a pile of work I was trying to get done at almost midnight. Everyone else in my family had already gone to bed, even the cat, who is supposed to be nocturnal by nature. I realized …
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Shabbat ends ends and the week begins. It seems like time starts again. We finish reading the Torah and we begin again with the first portion, the first words of Genesis: “In the beginning.” These thee words been translated many ways, but scholars seem to argue that the words tells us something about the creation not …
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