25 Jan
How happy are you? Could you be happier if you tried?
Is it selfish to want to try?
While on vacation in the happiest country on earth, I read Gretchen Rubin’s thoroughly absorbing (and now bestselling) meditation on these questions, The Happiness Project.
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22 Jan
Few aspects of organizational life are the source of as many complaints as meetings: too many meetings, pointless and unproductive meetings, meetings that take time away from “real” work. But the reality is that much organizational work is done in teams, and teams need to meet. So why not try to meet better?
Team members need to understand why they are meeting, know that their valuable and limited time will be well utilized, and feel that everyone will be held accountable for taking action on the issues discussed. Here are three questions that I’ve used to whip team meetings into better shape.
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18 Jan
Almost exactly a year before he was killed in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a stirring sermon at the New Covenant Baptist Church in Chicago. King preached that day about The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life.
King began, “you know, they used to tell us in Hollywood that in order for a movie to be complete, it had to be three-dimensional. Well, this morning I want to seek to get over to each of us that if life itself is to be complete, it must be three-dimensional.“
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16 Jan
How many steps do you take a day? Inspired by a recommendation by Dr. Oz, I bought a $23 pedometer and have started tracking my steps. Dr. Oz recommends taking 10,000 steps a day as a good aim for a healthy, active lifestyle.
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10 Jan
Sunset over the Pacific in Quepos, Costa Rica
I am on my first vacation out of the country in a number of years, and am remembering how international travel forces me into a more mindful state.
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4 Jan
Photo by Merlin Mann, 43folders.com
The new year presents an opportunity to revolutionize your relationship with email. Many of us allow email to pile up and overwhelm us in a way that we would never permit to happen with physical clutter.
The good news is it’s not that hard to develop healthier email habits. Here are some ways to start:
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