Students in general have very busy and stressful lives because they are attending classes, completing assignments and studying for exams. In addition they have their own daily routines and lifestyles that is necessary for creating balance between academics and extra curricular activities. However, finding time to do everything at once can be challenging and overwhelming. This is where good time management skills come into practice. This is a skill that students need to learn....

TheS.M.A.R.T. acronym is one that has been presented, discussed and applied to goal setting in various aspects of business over the years.  As there is some uncertainty concerning the originator of this concept, it is difficult to know exactly how and when it was first applied.  In any event, regardless of when its use may have been first noted, it is a concept that we all should be aware of and apply to both our business and personal lives.   This thought process...

Cleaning, cooking, washing, getting children off to preschool or school, attending parent-teacher interviews, helping with homework, getting children to after-school activities, spending time with children… and also trying to give your best at work… sound familiar? This is the every weekday reality for many working parents.

Combining a working life with raising a family involves a balancing act.

So here are a few coaching questions to help you assess where and...

Most people pack so much into one day that they believe it's impossible to fit meditation time into their daily routine. The truth is the ego will fabricate whatever story it needs to in an effort to stop you from meditating.

Before you allow that to happen keep this reality in mind:

"Meditation is not some-thing you do…it is the experience of Being that which you are!"
- Terry Swejkoski

What if you could breakout of the...

Do you remember the years after graduation? We were learning new skills, accumulating knowledge, becoming an expert in our field and earning higher salaries as we scaled the corporate ladder.

Our career soared until it stalled. Why?

Careers can ride on professional knowledge just for a certain distance. Sooner or later, gracefully or brutally, rapidly or slowly, we will discover that leadership is more about who we are than what we do.

Goethe wrote...

Procrastinations, interruptions, and distractions are the three culprits that work against your efforts at personal development and productivity.

Procrastinations often arise because psychologically you don't want to do the task and consequently you keep putting it off.You either perceive the task as being too difficult, too aggravating, too provoking or all three and try to avoid doing it. However, avoidance is not the solution and the longer you put it off, the more...

Today, there are much more distractions we have in our everyday lives compared to the olden times.Probably due to the complexity of how completing tasks have become, it is usually the journey and the process of it that is the hardest path to go through.

It makes sense how simplicity is necessary so that we can get our work or anything we want to do, done in a shorter time and in an easier way. There are many catastrophes, costly mistakes and problems that arises, surprisingly, not...

As a teacher I am extremely fortunate, as I can spend the whole of the holiday with my child. However, as lucky as I am, the holidays can be an expensive time if you are looking for interesting ways to spend six whole weeks!

Like most people with young children I am on a budget, one that I am likely to exceed over the coming weeks, so in order to combat this I have decided to research how we might spend those precious days, to maximise the fun and minimise the...

One of the most important skills busy people interested in self improvement, achievement and success can learn is effective time management. There are more demands on our time today than ever, everybody has too much to do, and it is easy to be overwhelmed with the sheer amount of information that confronts us each day. For most busy people, all their time is taken up, or at least it seems that way.

Time is actually the most valuable thing we all have. Time can neither be replaced...

Getting a salesman to plan his time is regarded by many sales executives as the one of the major problem in sales management. Why is time management and planning so important for sales? The answer lies in today's rising costs, in the midst of hot competition and the obvious decline in the face-to-face selling time.

Setting a time budget :
Setting a time budget is a task that requires joint effort by the management and the salesmen. The sales manager and his field...