When you set goals and achieve them, you make progress in your life. There’s no simpler way to describe the how to of personal development. Goal setting is awesome, but not every goal is met, and I want to help you with this today. In fact, according to a study done at the University of…
Before you can spend every day on the beach while you sit back and watch your money grow (you better believe that will happen) – at some point you’re going to have to get a little bit of work done. You know by now that I’m all about challenging you to think differently, and this…
Back in my early 20s, I totally sucked at getting things done. It wasn’t until grad school when I was juggling a growing small business, a part-time MBA schedule, and trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, that I really started to understand the value of note taking, lists, and…
Have you ever heard anyone say “Man, I just have way too much time. I mean I just don’t know what to do with all of this free time.” Yea, didn’t think so… None of us do. In fact, “I just haven’t had enough time” is by far the number one reason people give for…
So a few weeks ago I was out in Denver, Colorado (beautiful in October by the way) attending a couple of Scrum Alliance training courses. If you’re not familiar with the Scrum Alliance, it’s a professional organization similar to the Project Management Institute, however Scrum is more focused towards software development. Anyway, I was learning…
A couple of days ago, I opened up registration for my new Output Overdrive high definition productivity video coaching program. It’s been pretty crazy with all of the moving parts to this thing, but remember, we’re all in this together. I appreciate your patience and please bare with me along the way. And don’t worry….
Over the last few days, I’ve heard from dozens of you who have shared your goals and dreams with me, which has been amazing. I sincerely thank all of you who have reached out. Now, you’re about to learn about the third myth of highly productive people, and the final training post of this series….
Welcome back to the Myths of Personals Productivity series. On Tuesday, we talked about the myth of natural motivation. We discussed that motivation is not always a natural thing – in fact it rarely is. Often times it has to be manufactured and coaxed out of your daily life. You learned some ways to do…
Welcome to the rest of my story, and the first installment in the Myths of Personal Productivity series. Let’s get started. There’s a massive myth floating around that almost everyone I talk with on Academy Success struggles with. When each reader joins the community, I provide the opportunity to answer a survey which asks a…
The single largest barrier everyone has to accomplishing personal goals is being able to free up time in order to work on them. Sure, some people have more time than others, but almost none of us take the most advantage of the blocks of “free time” we have in our lives as well as we…