All your hard work is getting you nowhere. Your dieting attempts fail to shed a single pound, your extra postings to your blog leave your traffic flatlining and your last date won’t return your phone calls. Failing sucks and it can be hard to muster up the courage to continue when you see it constantly. […]
Landslide Motivators
Where do you find the motivation to stay fit? To be more productive? To learn new skills? To conquer your fears? Some people just hope the motivation will come and leave it at that. Others are a little more proactive and specifically clarify the benefits of taking action and the consequences of not taking action, […]
The Seven Keys to Leverage
Today is the first day of your new exercise plan. You had decided you wanted to start going to the gym more regularly and decided to start today. You go to work and there is an accident with one of the computer servers and you realize you have to remake a document you had already […]
Now or Never
One of the dilemmas that I have frequently faced is in trying to determine whether procrastination is justified or not. Sometimes you need to be patient and wait and other times call for immediate action. What often ends up happening is the events you put off until later you never actually get to. Now never […]
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