Keep Your House Clean Without Marathon Sessions
My mother was a stay-at-home mom. Her cleaning system wasn't going to work for me as a working mom. But the one system that seemed to work stopped working when we moved into a bigger space. Here's how I stopped doing marathon cleaning sessions and got it under control.
Podcast Episode 35: Enough, Tinkering and Routines
In today's episodes, we look at: What is enough? Tinkering Innovation vs. Standardization (routines)
How To Manage Working From Home
Working from home...many of us are doing it right now. Some are doing it better than others. So how can you make working from home successful? Today we look at various ways, including how to make the mental shift to and from working; maintaining an office space; keeping up motivation and the importance of notes.
Why My Team Is Thriving At Work
This has been a hell of a year. COVID has put a stress on most working people, if it left them employed at all.I've been working at home since March, and there is no sign of returning to the office. Yet our team is thriving. Someone recently asked me why I thought that was the case. And here are the reasons:
Podcast Episode 34: How I Get It All Done
In the recent reader survey, several people asked me how I managed to get everything done and have so much energy. Today's episode divulges my secret.
Applying Pareto to Pareto, or Math Doesn’t Work That Way
The Pareto Principle has been much abused in productivity circles. But I recently saw something that blew me away. Someone suggested that if 80% of the results comes from 20% of the work, then it must also hold that 64% of the results comes from 4% of the work. Umm, no.So I'm going to put on my math teacher hat here for a bit.
Book Review: Eat That Frog!
Eating frogs? Ick! Well, if you eat a frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. And that applies to productivity as well. Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog! puts some basic productivity principles he's used for success into terms of how to find the frogs, and swallow them down.
Podcast Episode 33: Antelopes, Rocks and Balance
This episode debuts the segment format: Segment 1: Antelopes, Mice and Energy ROI Segment 2: The Pickle Jar Theory Of Time Management Segment 3: Tying it All Together
