“99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” – George Washington Carver If you’ve reviewed, revised and/or re-focused on making significant progress toward your goals this January, you’re not alone. Even people who avoid New Year’s resolutions often take stock at the beginning of a new year and adjust …
“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.” – Vern McLellan New Year’s resolutions—love ‘em or hate ‘em, they’re inescapable this time of year. And even if you hate them, for many they hold an almost mystical appeal. The new year gives us …
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James Approaching a new year always makes me reflective. As artificial as New Year’s day can be considering, on one hand, it’s just another day—I do appreciate the chance to reflect forward, individually and collectively. There’s not much point in talking about …
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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” —Wayne Dyer Tell me if this sounds familiar: pre-COVID, you said to friends and colleagues more than once, “I would love the flexibility to work from home.” Then the pandemic hit, and suddenly you HAD to work remotely … Cue …
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Working from home?especially if you aren?t used to it?makes staying focused a lot harder than it is at the office. Maybe you?re supposed to be working RIGHT NOW?but there?s always time to learn to be more productive, right? For one thing, your workspace is different. Heck, you might not even HAVE a workspace to speak …
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Busy is the new stupid. Warren Buffett Calling Bullsh*t on Time Management Time is a tricky business even when the world is normal. Self-help gurus and coaches talk endlessly about time management, as though we can do anything about time. Ive got news for you, folks. You cant manage time. Time will keep marching …
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and dont repeat it. – Paul Bear Bryant Mistakes suck at the best of timesand yet they happen. And FYI, this is hardly the best of times. Of course, many wise people talk …
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In many ways, 2020 has been marked by the kinds of sudden change that no one is ever prepared for. These kinds of changes can be painful, sudden, and in some cases, irreversible. Take remote work as a case-in-point. Companies that would have never even considered a remote workforce in the past were forced to …
For lots of parents out there, the sudden move to online schooling in the spring was nothing short of torture. Suddenly, many found themselves working from home and facing triple duty: working, parenting, and teaching.
I’m sometimes asked why I write so much B2B (business to business) content, since I’m best known as an organizersome say, The Most Organized Man in America. Well, first, Andrew Mellen, Inc. does a lot more than declutter closets. We’ve helped many businesses over the course of 20+ years solve all kinds of problems, from …
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