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5 Ways to Add Value to Your Weekend

Hopefully you’re reading this post over a coffee on Monday morning after a perfect weekend. Your batteries are fully charged and you’re feeling ready to conquer the world this week. You’re well rested, invigorated, and able to tackle whatever the week brings you.

No? Doesn’t sound quite like you? Maybe you’re like the rest of us, stuffing the weekend so full of activities that you need to go back to work just to get a rest. Here are a few quick tips that you can use to help get you ready to go back to work on Monday. Click Here to Read Article …

Paying Your Dues As An Entry-Level Employee

Peter North 5th June Goals Leave a Comment

“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, but the right outlook can help you pay your dues as painlessly as possible. It’s a rite of passage that almost every one of your co-workers survived at the start of their career. If you do your entry-level work right the first time, you’ll never have to revisit the bottom of the totem pole. But, if you approach it with a poor attitude and a shaky work ethic, you might find yourself a permanent position in entry-level limbo. Click Here to Read Article …

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The Midweek Manifesto

Mike Vardy 2nd June Goals Leave a Comment

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, see what I’ve not done and reboot it and see what I’ve done and celebrate it. Looking forward I will take what’s left to be done and do it and with the rest of my plans I will stand firm. I’ll add tasks as I need and make sure that I heed my own voice that tells me, “I must get to complete.”

It may sound a bit cheesy but it works for me. I’m not suggesting you use this example, but just keep in mind your week is past the halfway mark. Don’t let it get away from you. Click Here to Read Article …

Breaking Bad Habits

Mike Vardy 1st June Goals Leave a Comment

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 can come with weekly or monthly timelines (such as 30 Days of Creativity or the Jerry Seinfeld-inspired Don’t Break The Chain), and even make you accountable to not just yourself but others as well (The Power of Less Challenge would be an example of this).

What bad habit would you like to break? What good habit would you like to begin? Let us know in the comments. Click Here to Read Article …

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Achieving: The Over/Under

Mike Vardy 30th May Goals Leave a Comment

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 talent that stands out but the one who worked the hardest. Prominent leadership expert/speaker/author John Maxwell has touched on this in many of his books, most prominently in Talent Is Never Enough.

Be honest with yourself…if you’re not getting what you want out of what you’re doing, what’s holding you back? Are you making the most of what you’ve got or resting on your laurels? What keeps your achievement level high – or what brings it down? Click Here to Read Article …

How Far Ahead Do You Plan?

Mike Vardy 29th May Goals Leave a Comment

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 deeper and look further into the future. Thats when the real meat of goal-setting comes into play. Thats when life gets interesting…and more fulfilling.

How far ahead do you plan? How many weeks, months, years? Do you plan activities, events and goals? How far down the rabbit hole do you go?

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The Rock Solid Reflection Plan

Mike Vardy 20th May Goals Leave a Comment

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 many people don’t do it at all. Doing this (or, rather, not doing this) is a recipe of mediocrity…or even organizational disaster.

All that aside, you can do this. You can review, reflect, revisit…whatever you’d like to call it…and you can do it regularly. I’m not going to outline what this consists of – there’s many different ways to do it and not one particular method works for everyone unilaterally. What I can do is present to you a plan on how to make sure you get to the act of doing it. Click Here to Read Article …

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In Conversation With: Sean Aiken of One-Week Job

Mike Vardy 12th May Career Leave a Comment

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 last year at a local TEDx event and after hearing about his project, I knew I had to keep up with his adventures. He’s been featured on several major news outlets (New York Times, CBC, CNN, 20/20, among others) and has authored a book on the subject and documented his story on film as well. During my conversation with Sean, he discusses the reasons he embarked upon this year long journey and what his results were. I can tell you that his book about it, entitled (appropriately) The One-Week Job Project is available now at fine bookstores – both online and not-so-online. He’s also completed his film and was showcasing it at a private premiere this week. Hopefully it’ll come to a theatre or television near you in the not-too-distant future. Click Here to Read Article …

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