Travelling to new cities.  Hotels with nice lobbies and king size beds.  Fancy meals.  Room service at the touch of a button.  Site seeing.  Enjoying drinks at an early happy hour … and with dinner … and a couple more later that night.  Music.  Dancing.  Staying up late.
This may sound like the beginning of your “to do list” [...]

In the economy today, it may be difficult to ask your boss for a raise … even if it’s well-deserved.  Even if you do have the opportunity to pitch a salary increase to your boss, and even if your boss sincerely wants to reward you with that raise, he or she may not be able [...]

What is one simple thing you can do each day at the office to help you sleep better at night?

Before you leave the office, spend 5-10 minutes to “O&P” (organize & prioritize)!

At the end of the day, it’s usually a little quieter and allows you a few minutes to spend time on O&P.  If not [...]

Imaging walking into your office in the morning … a calm start to your “9-5″ with a simple list of calls to return from the day before … marked with notes from your dedicated and detailed assistant regarding how urgent a call was, if it was someone important (to you), or if it was a [...]

Has your supervisor ever given you negative feedback that seems a bit … ironic?

He arrives at work just in time for lunch, but complains that you’re consistently tardy.
She books every “working lunch” at the most expensive restaurant, and accuses you of being careless with the budget.
He misspells words in every email, but [...]

I am in the middle of a ten-day vacation (I did not travel anywhere, but have guests in town, time off work, and feel great!)  I thought I would share some of the observations I’ve had in my first break from the so-called rat race of 2009.

I am not supposed to be exhausted.  Allowing myself [...]

Most advertisements focus on going from 0 to 60:  promoting everything from cars to energy supplements.  Wake up earlier!  Work out harder!  Lasting energy!
How do you reverse that?  Going from 60 to 0 … otherwise known as “flipping the switch off” after work and letting go of your work stress and office anxiety before you [...]

If there was a single thing you could do this week … ONE THING … to cut your time (not results) in half at the office, would you do it?  Try this tip for one week and let us know your results!

Prepare your (reasonable) action item list the day/night before … then simply make sure [...]

When you feel that your “plate is too full” at work (read:  every day!) and you wonder how you will have the time to get through your entire pile of paperwork on your desk (and emails in your inbox!), you can start to feel a bit overwhelmed.  In addition, you have to decided where to start AND [...]

We have all had a bad day at work … someone made a rude comment, your boss yelled at you, or a project didn’t turn out as planned.  But when a bad day becomes a bad week, and a bad week becomes consistent anger, sadness, or “Sunday night dread”, your quality of life is becoming [...]