9 Ways to Stay Productive When You Work From Home

9 Ways to Stay Productive When You Work From Home

Many of us are spending a lot more time at home right now. Including the workdays. When we’d usually be reporting to our desks, we’re finding ourselves on our couches or at our kitchen tables, trying to complete to-do lists without the built-in discipline of the...
3 Ways to Face Your Fears With Courage

3 Ways to Face Your Fears With Courage

Here are a few techniques to help you build your courage and face your fears. 1. Put all remote possibilities out of your mind. Don’t worry about things you have no control over. Don’t spend your time thinking about all of the bad things...
5 Exercises to Improve Your Storytelling Skills

5 Exercises to Improve Your Storytelling Skills

Football players practice ballet. Pianists repeat small sections of music until it’s perfect. In “Outliers,” it’s called “putting in your 10,000 hours.” In “The Talent Code,” Daniel Coyle names it “deep practice,” small exercises that are both challenging and...
10 Quick Tips for Better Business Writing

10 Quick Tips for Better Business Writing

Writing is the wrangling of thoughts to page—it is an arduous process that seeks to bring abstract ideas into the tangible world. Writing is valuable. It doesn’t just transfer insights, it creates them. And since “good words are worth much and cost little,” choosing...
How You’re Killing Your Productivity

How You’re Killing Your Productivity

Consider your day right now. What’s getting done that needs to get done—and what’s not? Do you find yourself at the end of a long day without your most important tasks completed? Do you keep pushing your long-term goals further and further into the future? The...