Innovative Solutions To Common Problems

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I was viewing an informative video interview of Senator Bill Bradley this morning that was conducted by Skip Prichard, the CEO of Ingram Publishers. While the main interview was based around Senator Bradley’s new book, We Can All Do Better, what really intrigued me were some side notes along the way about training for basketball. [...]

How To Finally Get Things Done!

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I want to come clean and be real honest with you. I struggle with to-do lists, productivity programs, and time management plans. While all these tools are great, at the end of the day, I feel like a failure more often than not. It’s not that I don’t try hard, but distractions get in the [...]

What Are Your Favorite Organizational Tools?

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I am not a naturally organized person. Over the years I have developed some tools that help me stay on track with the myriad of daily interruptions that can lead me astray. My favorite tool that I use is a paper based daily planner. Mine has morphed over the years and currently has six boxes [...]

The Top-Six Strategy for Daily Success

With all the conflicting organizational and productivity strategies on the market it can be hard to find a practical organizational solution that really works on a daily basis. I’ve tried Stephen Covey’s First Things First strategy of prioritizing tasks into quadrants of importance, as well as David Allen’s GTD strategy of next actions. I picked [...]