4 Ways to Organize Your Workspace Before the New Year

4 Ways to Organize Your Workspace Before the New Year

Why cleaning up house today can help you set up positive habits that will lead to better results tomorrow. The last few weeks of December always seem calmer and a good time to reflect on the year. Unless you’re in retail or another industry where the entire...
The Real Harm in Multitasking

The Real Harm in Multitasking

You’ve likely heard that multitasking is problematic, but new studies show that it kills your performance and may even damage your brain. Do some people have a special gift for multitasking? Stanford researchers compared groups of people based on their tendency...
Management vs. Leadership: The Great Debate

Management vs. Leadership: The Great Debate

Is it really even a debate anymore? Just ask yourself, when did you ever want to report to a manager versus a leader? Not what did you need, but what did you want? There’s no debate. Nobody in history ever said, “Boss, I just wish you would manage me more.” I mean...
Hard work vs. Long work

Hard work vs. Long work

Long work is what the lawyer who bills 14 hours a day filling in forms does. Hard work is what the insightful litigator does when she synthesizes four disparate ideas and comes up with an argument that wins the case–in less than five minutes. Long work has a storied...
10 Lessons To Build An Inspiring Business

10 Lessons To Build An Inspiring Business

Learn how to prioritize actions, delegate responsibilities and awaken corporate vision, inspiration and purpose to build and inspiring business. Here are 10 lessons to build an Inspiring Business: 1. Confidence Trap When you’re busy you often accomplish and create...
How Distractions At Work Take Up More Time Than You Think

How Distractions At Work Take Up More Time Than You Think

Make an estimate on how many times are you are distracted during an average work day. Now take that number and multiply it by 25. That’s how many minutes of concentration you’re losing. It takes an average of about 25 minutes (23 minutes and 15 seconds, to be exact)...
What Can You Really Accomplish in Just an Hour?

What Can You Really Accomplish in Just an Hour?

How you spend an hour is how you spend a year. Dan Dowling Solopreneur, writer, and coach How you lose an hour is the same way you lose a day — “God, I’ve been swiping through Instagram like a zombie!” How you lose a day is the same way you lose a month —...
1,000 True Fans

1,000 True Fans

To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur,...
Vision Is Everything for a Leader

Vision Is Everything for a Leader

One of the great dreamers of the 20th century was Walt Disney. Any person who could create the first sound cartoon, first all-color cartoon, and first animated feature-length motion picture is definitely someone with vision. But the vision for his greatest...