Allow white-space in your calendar. I know that sounds blasphemous but really nothing substantial happens in a vacuum. Nothing new can be created unless there is room to allow for forward movement. Too much of anything, even good things are still too much. Creating blocks of time in your calendar where absolutely nothing is planned [...]

You are Looking in the Wrong Place for Happiness
We are the source of our own happiness. Our happiness resides within us. No one and nothing else can give it to us. We may try to find all kinds of things outside ourselves to fill us up and make us happy, but they are all temporary, short-lived band-aids. We think success, reputation, respect, money [...]
Life Isn’t An EMERGENCY!
So many of us live from one crisis to the next! We have become so accustomed to crises and deadlines that we feel lost and lazy if we are not putting out some kind of fire. In fact if we are really honest, there’s something intense and thrilling about handling a crisis. But we take [...]

Use Time Management, Don’t Let it Use You
We can get so involved in the quest for better time management that the process itself becomes another monster in our lives and we become slaves to it. Effective time management can be a tremendously useful thing. It can help us look at how we spend our time. It can help us become more efficient [...]

If Not Now, When? Time is Limited
It’s so tempting to keep postponing and to keep pushing aside those things that we claim are most important to us. We keep telling ourselves, “Once I get through this…After this is done…Then I’ll start prioritizing differently.” But most of the time we are only fooling ourselves. The simplest way to avoid regrets is ask [...]
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