Category: Goals
5 Ways to Add Value to Your Weekend
You’ve only got 168 hours to make your weekend awesome – spend it wisely. Here are 5 tips to help you get value from your weekend.
Paying Your Dues As An Entry-Level Employee
“Entry-level” work often consists of the mundane, tedious tasks that managers and veterans just won’t do anymore. The term itself makes it quite clear that entry-level positions are at the bottom of the office rankings. Being the “new guy” or the “rookie” at work can seem like a raw deal,Read More
The Midweek Manifesto
You’ve just passed the middle of the week. No time like the present to take a look at what you’ve done and what you have to get done. Here’s a short note I like to call The Midweek Manifesto: My mission is to reflect on the beginning of the week,Read More
Breaking Bad Habits
Habits aren’t always bad, but the word just seems to conjure up thoughts of things that aren’t particularly good for us. There are “challenges” all over the web that try to help you break these habits but there are also those that try to instill good ones. These challenges canRead More
Achieving: The Over/Under
How productive you are is never about simply achieving. Everybody achieves something sometimes. It is the lengths to which one goes to achieve that makes them extraordinary or just plain ordinary. Or perhaps less. Effort is what propels achievement – and it’s often not the person with the most talentRead More
How Far Ahead Do You Plan?
Its been made pretty clear that an integral part of being awesome at being productive is doing some planning. When, where and what method you use are questions only you can figure out through trial and error. Once youve stopped trying and (hopefully) erring, you can dig a little deeperRead More
The Rock Solid Reflection Plan
One of the best ways – some would say the only way – to keep tabs on where you’re at and where you’re headed in terms of being productive is by looking back on where you’ve been. It’s challenging to do this regularly. Really challenging. What’s more is that manyRead More
In Conversation With: Sean Aiken of One-Week Job
While we’re all striving to have an awesome time working at one job, I scored an interview with a gentleman you managed to do so with 52 of them over the span of one year! Introducing Sean Aiken, founder and “do-er” of The One-Week Job Project. I met Sean lastRead More