Focus

This Message Isn’t For Everyone

Did the title of this post have you rushing to open it? How did you feel when you read that you might not be included in an exclusive group? While we're concerned about receiving relevant information and being up-to-date, we're wired to be more worried about missing out on something...

Don’t Make the Majors Minor

When everything is "top priority," the reality is that nothing is...

Are You Damaging Your Brain?

Multi-tasking actually damages your brain's ability to focus and makes you chronically distracted...

Is Your Auto-Pilot Sabotaging You?

Looking back over the last 6 months, how do you feel? How are you progressing toward your year-long goals?

Limit Your Options

Often advisors are quick to want to tell prospects about the wide variety of services they offer – from retirement planning, to insurance, to stock picking, to annuities, to mutual funds and on and on, thinking that breadth of their activities communicates expertise. But the range can be so broad that prospects can’t really get their heads around what the advisor does, much less understand how the advisor can specifically help them.

What 3 Things?

We can run around trying to get 20 things done (usually spending lots of energy and achieving very few results), or we can face reality: unless your tasks are extremely small or simple, you simply cannot complete 20 projects in one day. There is not enough time, and you don't have enough energy. So, decide: what 3 things will I absolutely, positively get done today?

February’s Coming! Are You Ready?

The best way to make your time count is to determine where you wish to be at a set time - let's say 90 days from now. Once you decide where you're going, it means doing things on purpose to move you toward your 90-day objective...

Dead Horses Don’t Run

With today's always on the go - constantly wired-in culture, being able to concentrate on any particular task at hand is getting increasingly difficult to do. Use your most powerful, undervalued (and free!) tool: rest...

Fall Realignment

My summer didn't end up looking exactly like I anticipated. I had unexpected things arise on both personal and professional fronts requiring more time and energy than I had planned to spend. Maybe, like me, you're ready for a new start with the new season...

Unexpected Distractions

There many ways we can avoid distractions in our daily activities. But what about those distractions we never see coming?