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 [...]

Sometimes the anticipation of a long day at work can make you want to call in sick, or a looming report can seem so overwhelming that you continue to set it aside until the “11th hour” and you have to complete the project in record time to meet your deadline.
How can you settle your nerves and [...]

Monday mornings can be hard.  It’s the beginning of the week, you have a lot of work in front of you, and you can barely see Friday evening at the end of the tunnel.  This can happen even if you like your job, because the lure of sleeping in and spending time with friends and [...]

Tell the truth:  right now, are you reading this blog on your laptop, while you eat lunch AT YOUR DESK, while finishing a report for the boss, while texting on your BlackBerry, while talking on your office phone … ON YOUR DAY OFF!?!
Time for an intervention.

I have been as guilty of overworking myself and multitasking [...]

We share calendars.  We share tasks.  We are put onto project teams.  We have team meetings.  We have team names.  “There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM”!
Let me play devil’s advocate:  when was the last time your team received an annual performance appraisal?  Does everyone on your team get the same raise?  Have you and your team [...]

Have you ever reacted to a colleague’s remark too quickly and regretted it the next day?  Have you ever yelled at an office-mate in a meeting only to feel guilty all night long once you made it home?
Yes.
Have you ever delayed your reaction until the next day, giving yourself ample time to think the situation [...]

Thank you to all of our readers who comment on our blogs and send us feedback.  We had several inquiries asking whether or not we recommend “to do” lists.  Personally, I think they’re vital to staying organized, but (1) they have to contain a MINIMUM number of items to focus on, (2) they MUST be [...]