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 Scranton in 2014, only eight percent of New Year's Resolutions are actually achieved. It doesn't take a statistician to understand that this is a DISMAL number. Isn't it funny the difference between what … [Read more...]
Use This Simple Strategy to Guarantee You Become a “Finisher”
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 all about Agile Scrum, which, in a nutshell, is a project management process geared towards increasing productivity among teams. While you … [Read more...]
Grab Your Copy of The Lifehackers Manifesto
Leading a more successful life isn't just about being more productive, or learning how to manage your finances well. It's about learning how to be a more effective person overall through the acquisition of a variety of skills and knowledge, and I want to be able to help do that for you through Academy Success. So to move closer towards that goal, I teamed up with 9 of my best blogging friends to create an awesome resource full of some of our best tips. It's called "The Lifehacker's … [Read more...]
How to Get Way More Done Using the Sticky Note Technique
Awesome freeze frame, right? Gotta get better at that. Anyway - The Sticky Note Technique is a very simple, yet extremely powerful technique to improve your day to day productivity. This solves many common problems with to-do lists such as feeling overwhelmed, listing unimportant tasks, not getting everything done, and more. With this one simple technique, you’ll not only increase what you get done, but you’ll also increase the effectiveness of the things you get done on your overall … [Read more...]
What Can A Frog Teach You About Time Management Skills?
Sounds like a weird question doesn't it? Even so, this question will stick with you after you read this post. One of the coolest productivity training books I've ever read is called "Eat That Frog" by Brian Tracy - I'll link you later, pay attention for now :) This book covers a lot of time management and productivity enhancing methods, all of which are pretty good, but the one that the book is named for is the one that will likely stick with you the most. This, of course, is the … [Read more...]
Joining the War Against Distractions and Lost Productivity
I just had somewhat of an assisted epiphany courtesy of fellow internet marketing blogger David Risley - one of the top bloggers on my list of top Internet Marketing influences. It has to do with, simply enough, getting things done, real things. David just authored a blog post over at his blog in which he declared war on distractions and lost productivity. Well I've beaten distractions before in my journey to an MBA, but I've admittedly let myself go to a certain point. So I'm in. … [Read more...]