Many times when you need to remember something you can write things down on a piece of paper or on sticky note. You can use one of the dozens of note-taking apps that exist for your phone or you can opt to leave a voice memo. You might even set alarms with notes to go [...]

The end of a calendar year is a typical time when many people, including myself, experience burnout. An extended time working without a vacation, the stress of deadlines that go along with bringing the old year to a close, coupled with the busyness of the holiday season is more than enough to put us over [...]

Multitasking is usually a mistake. Most of the time, what you are really doing is switching your attention back and forth from one activity to another. While it seems you are doing two or more things at once, usually you are just lowering your productivity and as much as 30%. This is pretty commonly known [...]

A few years ago, I was leaving a basketball game and there was an incredibly inspirational quote on the wall that stopped me dead in my tracks. Unfortunately, I cannot recall it word for word and my Google searching hasn’t turned up anything either. However I found three other quotes that, in combination, express the [...]

Creativity can be difficult for us because for most of our lives we have been trained to not think creatively. Much of our education during our earlier years focus on either remembering a specific set of facts or reproducing a solution we have been taught. For most of us at work, this is also true. A [...]

Resilience is “the ability to persevere and adapt when things go awry,” according to the authors of The Resilience Factor.  It is the ability to overcome adversity. With resilience, we face problems, conflicts, and stressful situations head-on with bravery and a confidence that we will succeed and that things will work out. Without enough [...]

How do you deal with conflict? It’s probably different from the way that your colleagues handle things. The way that we deal with conflict in the workplace varies with our individual personalities, our experiences growing up (fun fact: including whether or not we went to preschool), and how we’ve learned to manage conflicts in [...]

Everywhere you look there are people willing and able to do things for you. We’ll mow your lawn, we’ll clean your house, we’ll cook you dinner. Often the affordability and convenience of these services is very tempting. These days you can get a burger at a fast-food restaurant not only faster, but also cheaper than [...]