5 Snacks That will Smash That Afternoon Groggy Feeling
You should snack, a lot. During the day you should eat approximately 200 calories every 2 to 4 hours, both for health and productivity. If you let your blood sugar get too low, you could be on your way to some serious binge eating and desperate snack choices. In fact, 90% of your overeating could [...]
Beating Procrastination is Easy – Once You Get Moving
One of the biggest difficulties for most people to overcome is procrastination. We all have things we dread doing, and it is so much easier to come up with excuses not to do those things, or find other more pressing things to take care of, all as a means of avoidance. Then we look at [...]
Is it Smart to Trade Time for Money?
Towers Perrin, a large human resource consulting firm, just published survey results revealing that most workers have strong negative emotions towards their work. I belonged to this group until several years ago when I decided to transcend my fear and transform my career from a wage earning software engineer to an entrepreneur.
This alchemy of professions [...]
Better Time Management Through Better Focus
In today’s hectic, multi-tasking society it can be difficult to maintain your focus on a project. We become easily distracted by many things – co-workers, the telephone, e-mail, or the television. We also lose our focus as we try to juggle several projects at once, finding ourselves pulled in many directions.
In order to accomplish more [...]
The Moment of Truth
The following is an extract from one of my fave movies - A Few Good Men (or as it’s known here in Australia - Three Grouse Blokes):
Jessep (Jack): “You want answers?”
Kaffee (Tom): “I think I’m entitled to them.”
Jessep: “You want answers?”
Kaffee: “I want the truth!”
Jessep: “You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a [...]
Chaos Training - Feeding Short Term Fitness Misery
Have you ever heard of chaos training?
Yeah neither have I until I was doing my “what is going on in the industry” research the other night. I came across this article written by a UK newspaper about chaos training.
Chaos training got its name from the chaos theory which states that random acts such as a [...]
The Causes of Stress and How to Overcome Them
Stress is one of the greatest causes of illness in our society today. It is possible that as much as 70% of all trips to the doctor can be attributed to stress. Stress is the great pretender, mimicking or contributing to nearly every ailment imaginable. In the interest of your own personal development, you need [...]
11 Odd but Simple Ways to Improve Your Health
Each year there are thousands of new articles and books aimed at helping you lose weight and stay in shape. Most of these only focus on the cornerstones of good health: diet and exercise. Same message, new words right?
Well, there is no mistaking the fact that diet and exercise are crucial to your existence. However, [...]
6 Tips for Landing Your Dream Job
Do you have a job that’s just like everyone else’s? Are you looking for a nine-to-five…but wish you weren’t? Do you wish there was another option, one that would lead to an exciting, unique, and fulfilling line of work?
I recently interviewed more than 100 people who currently hold their dream jobs as research for my [...]
6 Reasons Why Productivity Belongs To The Night Owls
Rising early, the habit of champions, is not statistically proven to increase productivity, happiness, or success. So why are so many people tooting their own horn about getting up before the rooster squawks?
It really comes down to the fact that certain early risers take full advantage of their early morning hours, and they’re very productive [...]
