How do we read books? It may seem that there is nothing special in it. We take a book, open it from the first page and read it till the end of it. That is the way most of us do and actually it is an inefficient way to read books. It will result in relatively poor reading speed and low comprehension.

Have you ever watched professional athletes train or compete? No matter if it is basketball, tennis player or weight-lifting, athletes always perform some warm up exercises...

We are all procrastinators. Either consciously or subconsciously we delay, stall and put off various tasks that will make a positive difference in our lives. Procrastinating is actually a habit developed over a long period of time. Habits are very hard to change without a conscious, deliberate action taken on our part.

Traditionally, procrastination has been associated with perfectionism, a tendency to negatively evaluate outcomes and one's own performance. It is an intense...

Planning an event is not always automatic.  The right is usually much bumpier than it is smooth.  Following is easier than leading and planning an event takes lots of leading.  Here are just a few easy-to-follow steps that can help make organizing your next event a little smoother.

Easy Steps for Planning Your Event

1.    Start soon ‒ as soon as you have a grasp of the event it is time to start organizing.

Does it ever feel like you are running against time? Well if you do feel this way, “welcome to the club” as they say! Due to the amount of information that we receive constantly everyday it is almost impossible for a “regular” human being to keep up. Inundated with information and unable to filter it the correct way it is normal that sometimes we fall behind. Our e-mail boxes and agendas look more like a coloring book because we think that highlighting different...

Do you consider yourself a failure when it comes to organizing? Do you feel like giving up (or have you given up) trying to clear clutter in your home? As soon as you get a space cleared on a book case or on top of a flat surface does someone in your home come along and fill it up?

Fill it up syndrome is alive and well in our home. It drives me crazy. One thing I do to thwart this syndrome is that I don’t allow the stuff to “live” there; I move it to its...

I heard a commercial on television asking “how will you be remembered”. I started thinking about that and things I remember about certain people in my life.

From the time I was about 6 years old until I was 12 we would pick raspberries every hot summer in my uncle’s berry patch. The adults would chat back and forth as we made our way down the rows of prickly berries. The wife of my uncle who owned the berry patch didn’t work in the fields. She evidently was...

How to know if you are becoming a slave of your work? How to find out if work is taking more attention than needed? How to know that your life is suffering because of excessive work and thoughts of work? For any work slave his/her enjoyment is in work. Ask a work slave to get away from work for a short time and he/she will read out a list of what all work is still pending. Let us test if you are a work slave?

Take a typical day. Find out how many hours you spend working,...

Have you ever experienced a situation when you are in a hurry but your guests just do not want to go away from your office or home? They keep talking and talking about different topics, but your time is running. You have so much work to do, but you can’t do it because you have visitors. What should you do?

The problem is that when your visitor is sitting on a chair or a sofa then he is less likely to leave. If he is sitting on a comfortable sofa then he may forget...

Time management is an effective tool to help us get the most out of our day. By planning our time, we can ensure we get what we want done and factor some “me” time into the process.

Motivation is a key element of time management and organisation success. You need to be clear when planning your time what tasks are high priority to you, why you are doing them and what the outcomes will be. When you are clear on what the outcomes will be, your motivation levels will soar...

Have you noticed how so much of the feedback we get about ourselves in life is negative?

Think back to school progress reports.  Now, reflect on your job performance evaluations. How often did these assessments focus on what you were doing well, as opposed to where you needed to improve? If your experience is typical, feedback about your need for improvement far outweighed the feedback about what you did well.

This focus on deficits and where you fall short is almost a...