I am sitting at Gate B3 at the Nashville International Airport. I just spent 50 minutes getting through airport security. The line wasn’t that long; what should have been a 15-minute wait was more than triple that time. While the TSA agents were hardly models of efficiency, there was a bigger problem involved in the […]
Have you ever put something off, only to find it looming over your head like a dark cloud? Maybe it’s a business you want to start, the sales calls you need to make, or a book you want to write, or an exercise program you’ve been meaning to start. When the thought of it drifts […]
I remember when I first took the helm of a leadership company back in the late 90’s. I knew exactly how I wanted things to operate and I wanted them to be perfect! For years, I took pride in the attention I gave to detail and to getting things completed correctly, and I would use […]
This past Thursday, I was invited to speak at a women’s business networking group in Richmond. The topic was “How to shave 5 hours off your work week.” During my talk, I went over a few topics like taming your email and setting up an efficient calendar. Standard stuff with a twist—I like putting a […]
I was recently reading a section in Success Magazine that featured a piece on what successful people do in the first hours of the day. There were some great tips that included meditation and waking up at the crack of dawn and jotting down your most creative ideas while sitting in a beautiful study or […]
What’s so special about 5:15? Is it 15 minutes after you get off work, 15 minutes into a happy hour…you don’t want me to get up at 5:15 in the morning do you??? Actually, I was referring to a simple concept of 5 seconds or less and 15 seconds or more. It might just be […]
Here are three easy steps that can save you a bunch of time and headache especially when your day starts to blow up. I was teaching a program on time management last week and there was a healthy debate about what is important to do each day vs. what is critical to do each day […]
Do you have things that need to get done but you keep putting them off? Is there a room, office, or desk, that is a disaster and you know it needs to be organized or cleaned out? What about all of those calls and meetings you need to set up but the phone feels like […]
A good friend of mine recently asked me a curious question that caught me a little off guard. “You are out and about all of the time. Your business seems to be doing well. You have to be working your butt off raising a 7-month old. Yet, after years of marriage, you and your wife […]
The pressure mounts all day long to go faster and faster. Little phrases become all too familiar, crank that report out before 8:30, spend less time talking, spend more time doing, get to that meeting early, have those numbers on my desk by yesterday, can you get to the store before it closes. As you […]
