Posts tagged: Success

The Business Of Spreading Your Wings

When it comes to building your own business: what is more important than any MBA or college education? Networking. Finding, communicating, and connecting with others, friends, family, acquaintances, partners, clients, communities…you need to reach out and spread your wings. Get involved and get noticed.

The Uses And Abuses Of Setting Deadlines

Is that ticking clock in the background really helping us work harder and more efficiently? Or is it giving us incentives to rush, slack off, or feel frustrated? In what context do deadlines help us or hurt us?

Fifty Ways To Stay Committed

Everyone has aspects of their life they want to change or improve upon. The trick is how do we stay committed to these intentions?

Believe That Nervousness Is A Good Thing – And It Is!

I just finished reading the latest edition of Psychology Today and came across a very interesting experiment. The results showed that students who were told that nervousness would improve performance ended up scoring better on their Graduate Record Exam (GRE) than students who were told nothing at all.
The study (PDF download) was done by [...]

How To Think Less And Do More: Turning Life Into Flow

What do psychologists mean when they talk about the state of flow? How can this state of mind benefit our productivity and overall life satisfaction?