All Work and No Play Are you working too much? Do you operate on the principle that you have to finish all your work before you allow yourself to play? Apparently this is a gift handed down in the United States from our Puritan founders. The problem with this thinking is that there is no

Some people write in a journal in the evening, unwinding and reflecting on their day. Some also make a list of things for which they are grateful. These are great ideas and I may follow their lead someday. For now I prefer to start my day with my journal using it to make my day

Are You Burning Out? Is your job getting you down? Do you feel like you need a break or you just might explode? Here is an excerpt from my book, “Ice the Burnout.” This is stress-buster #17 of 20. Leave Work at Work Whether you are a CEO or a checker who has to balance

Are You Too Nice to Stay Motivated? My friend, Deb DiSandro, and I have been accountability partners for a couple of years now. We meet and talk about our goals, our plans, and our challenges. We write down the steps we plan to take in the next week or two weeks. Then we each go

Is This the Year You Will Write Your Book? I know I am not the first person to notice this but…The years are flying by! It seems like we just dodged that scary bullet of having all the computers in the world go berserk when the new millennium started, and here we are in 2010!