Tips on productivity, energy managment, time managment, stress reduction and memory loss. Anything to help your productivity suck less.
Where do I begin?
Before I start any writing project, I check off my ten essentials and make sure they’re in order. They save TIME and ENERGY, and they support successful completion no matter how resistant I am:
This guy is pretty stressed out but he keeps his cool. I do feel sorry for the bull, though.
In the Harvard Business Review, Justin Menkes wrote an terrific blog piece, “How Stress Can Improve Your Performance.” He says,
“Once an executive learns how to manage adrenaline without panic, he or she can grow confident that the sensations that stress induces will not lead to collapse.
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I want to be this guy.
I want to be Tony Hseih — selling LinkExchange to Microsoft for 265 mil, being CEO of Zappos, and writing a worthy best seller: Delivering Happiness.
Of course, if I told this to Tony he’d probably say, “Dawn, you don’t want to be me. Be more of yourself.” Hhmph.
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Written by Michael Pollock
This is the second half of a two-part interview with business blog thought leader, Michael Pollock, creator of The Bigger Life Blog: How to make a living online while making a difference in the world. While responding to the interview questions, Michael wrote the following post. To read more of Michael’s work, please visit The Bigger Life Blog.
This is a great question and a big question. In fact, assuming you buy into the notion that success in any endeavor is ultimately about persisting long enough to achieve your desired outcome, this question is THE NUMBER ONE critical question we all need to answer for ourselves.
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- Michael D Pollock, “The Bigger Life Blog”
I learned about Michael Pollock when I was researching online thought leaders. Michael has several interviews with a variety of thought leaders, located on his blog, The Bigger Life Blog: How to make a living online while making a difference in the world. Michael left a lucrative career to focus on purpose driven work, and created another equally successful business financially and emotionally. He is as forthright, practical, and humble as he is savvy. His interview is divided into two posts. This section talks about how he makes a living at making a difference, and how he manages his energy to keep it going. The second posting (tomorrow) will be 7 specific steps on “How to keep going when you feel like giving up.”
Did you ever work at a job without consciously connecting it to your values?
This is my super simple Excel 2010
social media spreadsheet. I use it as a weekly planning tool. Anyone who wants to download, have at it. I know it's rudimentary. If you do something clever with it, send me a copy. :)
