Productivity

What’s Your Super Bowl?

Monday Meditations

How you think it feels being Super Bowl XLV MVP Aaron Rodgers today? Wouldn’t it be cool to feel like that? To be at the very top of your game? That sense of accomplishment from a season’s worth of struggle and sacrifice? Beginning today, why not give yourself permission to kick off your own season [...]

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My Space

Home + Life

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve had a few people ask about the space I use to do (the majority of) my work. Warning - this is gonna get geeky. I work from home. Our house has two master bedrooms - one of which we (and be ‘we,’ I mean ‘my wife’) converted into this [...]

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Need To Dig Out? Boost Your Energy.

Small Business Help

You ever feel like you’re not sure how you’re going to dig out - either metaphorically or literally? We’re digging out from Columbia, Missouri’s first blizzard in recorded history. Last night, Interstate 70 was closed down from St. Louis to Kansas City, and we woke up to 17.5″ of new snow on the ground. We [...]

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Five Golden Things

Small Business Help

One Read a simple, thought-provoking piece from Dan Pink that opens with the following: There are two kinds of people in the world … those who make your life easier — and those who make it harder. It’s a litany of those - people on either side of a dash. It struck me. I hope [...]

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A Gift: Make Your List. Check It Twice.

Home + Life

It’s time to dump. First me. Then both of us together if you’re into that sort of thing. It seems like every holiday season, I somehow blow something regarding work - something falls through the cracks, or some emergency arises that causes stress and bad will toward men. I don’t mean for it to happen. [...]

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“Workin’ on the Blog”

Small Business Help

It’s easy to spend a lot of time diddling with margins and headers and colors and font choices. If you work on a platform like WordPress, you can lose yourself for hours tweaking this setting and that one and this one again. But in all that time working on the blog - you haven’t actually [...]

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How To Have A Better Weekend

Popular Blur Posts

Before you call it a weekend, tie up a loose end. Or grab the scissors and cut it off. Fix something that needs fixed. That monotonous little project that you’ve been pushing back from one day to the next on your to-do list for days/weeks/months? Do it. You know which one I’m talking about. Give [...]

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Schedule The Day’s Big Three

Small Business Help

Yesterday, I wrote about starting to actually (some would say finally) put my to-do’s on my calendar. That might appear overwhelming and constrained. What if you have 28 things to do today? You’d spend two hours trying to cram it all on your calendar. How can we make things more manageable? I took this advice [...]

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Stop Spanking The Hourglass

Small Business Help

It’s not you. It’s me. I have no doubt this will sound silly to you. After all, you’re not only good-looking, but smart and resourceful as well. And then there’s me. After finishing another day of being completely busy but getting little done on my actual to-do list, it occurred to me (after 40 years). [...]

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Be Like Mike: Managing Your Email Inbox

Small Business Help

Yesterday, my partner Michael Drew (the entrepreneurial genius behind Promote-A-Book and several other successful adventures) emailed me a congratulations for something that had gone well. When I emailed him a quick reply of thanks, this immediately came back. Genius. It immediately sets up my expectations without sounding off-putting. Well played, Michael. I’m a big fan of [...]

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