what’s your intent today?

No employment is perfect.

The dreaded mid-afternoon slump comes to all of us eventually.

Who wouldn't like a little more space to wiggle their toes? What if I was to tell you that getting a bigger living space required no expense or even moving?

The funny thing about life is that there is no rule that says you have to finish everything. In fact, I believe that even when you die, there will still be things on the task list, and stuff in the in-box.

So much of the secret of getting much done involves knowing when to stop. Without the end limits, we quickly burn out and our productivity dips.

Trained as a musician, I look for similarities from music to real life. There are two concepts that run through performance that can be applied to life.

Productivity experts have been saying it for a long time: take some time, every day, to plan your day. There is a reason for this.

I've been thinking about this lately because a friend asked me how I managed to keep my house picked up and ready for company. The truth, as I told her, was that it wasn't an overnight change.

I hestitated a long time before deciding to write this article in response to this week's call for content, for it is very personal and a subject close to the core of my being. Alcohol addiction runs through both sides of my family, and I was raised in a home filled with the disease of alcoholism.

It seems that we are all becoming terribly distracted.

In our culture of do-more, be-more, we often rush from one task to another without really paying attention. One of the things that gets lost in the noise of our daily lives are the signals our bodies give to us.