Power in Your Fingertips When your fingertips connect with your brain, the mental juices start to flow, clarity takes shape. Thought reveals possibility. Possibility spurs action. Action shows the way to probability, and probability becomes reality. Get out your notebook, your journal, your goals book, whatever works for you; make more progress on your life…

The years, not so much. Why do the days sometimes seem to crawl while the years move so fast? We monitor the slow days, filled with waiting, working and repetition.  Time seems to expand, marked by our daily patterns and events. While today is so vivid, last year yields to memory.  The past can drift…

“I’m not sure how I’ll do this, but I think I can figure it out.” Stretch your capabilities and capacities.  Grow.  Refine what you already possess.  Pushing beyond your comfort zone teaches you that what you thought were limits were assumptions, not necessarily facts.  To grow means you move past the monotonous repetition of the…

Why, what and how Philosophers and project managers like to understand the why before they move on to the what and how.  Understanding the reason makes sense for many things you do, but they need to fit in the right context.   If you fell off a boat in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, it…

What’s next on the list? You benefit from doing something rather than nothing when you are stuck, unable to see a way through the problem in front of you. You now have a choice: hyperfocus on the obstacle, let the problem grow larger, or move to the next item on your list. The next task…

Well begun is half done – attributed to Aristotle, among others. The first order of business is to establish order – to gain control over chaos before you solve anything inside it. Create order in your space. Order in your priorities. Order in your decisions. The hardest part isn’t the work itself – it’s knowing…