We recently interviewed Stever Robbins as a guest on the Career Success Radio Show. In preparation for the interview I read Stever's newest book, "Get-It-Done-Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More," -- a book I highly recommend.One of the helpful tips that Stever suggests in his book to overcome procrastination by turning routine tasks into habits -- daily habits, weekly habits, monthly habits, etc. Establish a habit by...

"Dead Time" -- What is it? • It's waiting in the hallway for an upcoming meeting or • The time spent taking a cab to a client's office • It's waiting "on hold" on a phone call, or • Standing in line a Starbucks, or • Waiting for an appointment to show up, or waiting at a doctor's officeStay conscious of your daily "dead time" -- those time gaps that occur throughout the day -- and use this time to catch up on e-mail, read a...

In the day-to-day, week-to-week conduct of our work, business life and personal life, we do the things we need to do to accomplish our job and get things done. We exercise our talents to get these things done; we utilize our key skills to do those things as well as we can. Six months go by, nine months go by, lots of work is done, lots of things get done. but ..... have WE gotten better? .... or are we simply going throug...

True leadership sometimes means owning up to the idea of admitting you’re wrong. Consider this .... If you've done a great job of surrounding yourself with incredible team members, it's important to understand that they MAY have better ways of doings things or breakthrough ideas to consider. Hopefully, they WILL have better ideas and unique and (possibly) more powerful ways of handling problems and formulating winning solu...

As you move through your day today, make a special commitment to tag a compliment or a word of gratitude on to every conversation or every interaction you have with another person. Look for something kind to say Express your gratitude or say thank you as often as you can Take notice of the little things; comment on them Look for opportunities to make others feel good about themselves Your challenge is to find something pos...

Leadership, professional development, and personal growth require us (DEMAND us) to take risks, to "push the envelope" and to occasionally (frequently?) step onto the stage of "boldness." Being bold requires courage, being bold may put us in a vulnerable position; but being bold also creates opportunity, opens doors and gets the attention of others -- others who can help us, others who can partner with us in making amazing...

"I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily. "Gary ColemanHow VISIBLE are you to your boss or manager and other members of your senior management team? "Face time," visibility and frequent engagement with your boss is critical to your success; he or she is definitely one of the (and many times THE) "key holders" to success at your company. Actively seek out opportunities over the course of...

The "80/20 Rule" applies to all that we do. The 80/20 Rule states that 20% of our activities will account for 80% of the value we add and 80% of our success at work. FACT: Out of the ten most important items on your current list of things to do, two of those items are almost always of MUCH higher value than the other eight. Those two items tend to be critical to the achievement of your key desired outcomes, goals and obj...

I just wrapped up a call with another one of my high-performing coaching clients. I often find, as I did in this situation, that a learning point emerges from my conversations with these bright, super-talented individuals. In reflecting back on this call, the learning point was the reminder to myself that it is up to each of us to ENSURE that we have EDUCATED our contact network -- i.e., our clients, prospective clients,...

"It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion." - Rene DaumalWhen people ask you what you do for a living, what is it that you tell them?Do they understand it well enough to send a referral to you who could benefit from what you do -- a truly viable prospect?...