Archive for April, 2009

What Does Productivity Without Effort Look and Feel Like?

It isn’t every day that I get to be interviewer and subject simultaneously, but that’s what happened a couple of weeks ago when Wendy Yellen took me on a powerful (and in some ways, unexpected!) journey using a human technology I’d never heard of–talk about a “best kept secret” in my mind! If you’d like [...]

Your Top 5 Talents Will Increase Your Productivity

Back in December 2008, I’d written a post that implied that always playing to only your strengths wasn’t all that it was cracked up to be and had referenced something that hit a nerve in the book, Strengthsfinder 2.0 by Tom Rath. Despite my thoughts about playing to your passions no matter what, I have [...]

I Can’t Catch a Break and It’s All THEIR Fault!

You know the type: “They’re just lucky!” they say. “Life dealt me a bad hand.” Says who? If you are perpetually stuck in inertia because the stars just don’t seem to be aligned for you in particular, you might want to check your perception. Or hey, you might know someone who continuously shows up that [...]