Years ago, a ‘contact manager’ was known as a Rolodex—a sort of rotating file device that sat on your desk and contained specially-shaped index cards. Each card held the contact information of a person or a company. A well-maintained Rolodex took a lot of effort and was considered essential to business success. In fact, business [...]
The review at the end of the day... Somedays you wonder how you even made it through! The deluge of emails, overwhelming demands for your time and attention, constantly trying to do more with less—all leave you exhausted.You have meetings, phone calls, texts, tweets, blogs, all pulling you into the whirlpool and diminishing your ability [...]
Zoe’s day looked hectic—so much to get done, and most of it had to be accomplished away from the office—and away from her laptop. For example, on her way to meet with a client, she needed to swing by the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. Then, she had a late lunch with a new [...]
When I was little, mom said she knew I was lying because a red dot would appear on my forehead. It took years before I realized it wasn’t the red dot, but my attempts to hide my forehead, that clued-in my mother. Maybe when you were young, you were told things like: Don’t play in [...]
It turns out that what makes people happy comes down to one small four-letter word... Happiness—“the quality or state of being happy”—has been in the news a lot lately, hasn’t it? Books and articles written, conferences held, memes created… you name it—which is exactly as it should be. We should all be pursuing what makes [...]
