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Develop a Goal-Setting Mindset
Project Management for Entrepreneurs
Procrastinate Less & Get More Done
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Time Management Articles:
The principles of pacing.
If you want to get the right things done in this digital age of speed, work slower, not faster. Your progress is greater when you do not undertake too many projects or tasks at the same time. Have you ever taken on several large projects only to realize that you have...
To maximize efficiency, get in sync with your body’s rhythm.
Pay attention to your body's clock Have you ever felt completely exhausted after work with barely enough energy to flop on a couch after ordering a family-size pizza for dinner? You had completely used up your supply of energy for the day, and yet an hour or two later...
How to become a patient person.
In last week's article, I provided a dictionary definition of patience as “the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.” But more accurately, I should have just said that patience is the opposite of impatience.”...
Quarterly newsletter from Harold Taylor, March 2021.
New Book The Proactive Manager, my latest e-Book, published this year by Bookboon, expands on my 2020 introductory book, How to Become a Proactive Person, and with the aid of more recent research, introduces you to our innate proactive brain and how you can enhance...
A patient person is a productive person.
John Dewey, a 20th century philosopher, psychologist, said that the most useful virtue in the world is patience. It is certainly true today. We have plenty of opportunities to be impatient. Most people in business face a plethora of interruptions, delays, rush jobs,...
The power of anticipation
To anticipate means to predict, expect, or think about what is likely to happen. Whenever you anticipate that something might happen, you can immediately take action instead of saying after the fact, “I was afraid that might happen.” The action you take...
The 7-day work plan.
Do not allow your workload to accumulate on a long “To-do” list or you will be paralyzed by the weight of it all. Just the sight of it will prompt you to procrastinate. You will lose time trying to sort out the priorities and making up your mind which ones to do...
Leave space in your life.
Angela Watson, a motivational speaker for educators with 11 years of classroom teaching experience, in her book, Fewer Things, Better, uses the analogy of margins on notepaper to illustrate the importance of leaving space in your daily schedule. On most notepads,...
Don’t let your garage be a victim of overflow.
As car ownership increased in the early 1900s and repurposed carriage houses were no longer adequate to serve as garages, separate sheds began to appear, sans the smell of animals. These early garages, originally located not far from the houses, soon adjoined them,...