ruthless

How Ruthlessness Can Actually be a Good Quality

Be ruthlessly selective, both in life and in the workplace. If you want to cultivate a fulfilling, satisfying and productive career or home-life you must carve it out for yourself. You need to be careful to make choices that take you closer to the life you want to live or to the career that is [...]

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A Hammock on a tropical beach.

Don’t Forget to Charge Your Batteries

When’s the last time you did something just for you? Be honest. I mean just for you, for fun or pleasure with no work pay-off, planned outcome, ROI or ulterior motive… For most the answer is …uh…I can’t remember. Time alone, to de-stress, re-group and re-charge our batteries is crucial to our health and well-being. [...]

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Reader Questions: How Can Productive Life Concepts be More Useful?

It’s time for a reader question post – How can I make Productive Life Concepts more useful for you? I’d like to get some reader input in an effort to continue improving the blog and making it more useful to my readers. Topics – What topics would you like me to cover in the coming weeks/months? [...]

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My TV experiment: Successful Results

In the interests of full disclosure…It actually wasn’t an intentional experiment. I didn’t set out to give up TV, it just happened that way. Over the last month I was so busy with work responsibilities, wrapping up employment obligations, launching new career opportunities, dealing with life changes, transitions, and unexpected obstacles that I was forced [...]

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A Better Bill Paying Solution to the Rescue: Manilla

Most of us hate paying bills. We worry that we’ll forget or miss a payment. We’re not sure how long to keep our records and we have bulging files to prove it. It takes too much time. It’s too much hassle. A recent survey showed that bill paying is by far the most stressful and [...]

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