Improve the brevity and simplicity of your electronic communication. Connect with 5 new people and 7 existing colleagues or friends each day. Inspect your business process cycle from start to finish for improvement. Rethink your approach to helping others succeed. Increase the number of times you connect others to build new relationships. Resolve 3 pieces of unfinished business, no matter how painful. Live closer to your goals and your main points of focus, and less by reacti

Is there a dream you’ve put on hold and it’s time to revisit? Have you put a project on a backburner for a variety of reasons? How do you overcome inertia? To crush overthinking through procrastination, determine whether you focus on prevention or promotion. Prevention is avoidance to preclude a potential loss like squandering money or damaging your reputation; stay safe. Promotion is when you see an opportunity to advance or learn and you can’t get started. Analyzing the dif

You glance at your to-do list and it’s overwhelming. Your initial thought might well be to run through the easiest, yet time consuming actions first. These may feel like many small annoyances; the call you need to return or the quick review of a client project. Yes, we all know how good it feels to check off multiple tasks, send those e-mails out and lo and behold, your morning is gone. Instant gratification is seductive and the busyness feels like you are engaged in a series

My boyfriend, later to become my husband, drove a Volkswagen bug everywhere. He and “Betsy” had a long relationship and I was relatively new to the scene. The car did have many miles on it and I had certainly been along for many rides, so I was somewhat familiar with its operation. However, I had only driven automatics until the day I had to borrow “Betsy” and needed to get some road time in quickly prior to going solo. He was more than patient as we bucked around a large par