Tech Test 02
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3 Enemies of Focus in the Workplace and How to Defeat Them
Between the distractions all around and our own shriveled attention spans, it is remarkable we get anything done. Aristotle once said, “The end of labor is to gain leisure.” Yet most busy leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals have – at best — ambivalent feelings about the pursuit of leisure, whether it’s due to self-inflicted pressure, too much on our plates or…
Tags: entrepreneurs, focus, productivity, tasha eurich, time management
10.13.2016
Back to the Future…of Happiness
Recently, my husband and I decided to show our three daughters (ages 9, 6, and 3) the classic movie Back to the Future. Of course, my kids were immediately enthralled, but my youngest had a few key questions like, Mommy, what is the future? And what is the present? (pause) And what is plutonium? I…
Tags: Amy Blankson, future, happiness, technology
10.04.2016
Having a Bad Day at Work? Focus on Solutions
This article by Jenny Che was first published on The Huffington Post. Michelle Gielan is a big fan of positive thinking. A former journalist for CBS News, Gielan believes that focusing on good news goes much further than harping on the bad. Gielan, now a positive psychology researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and the…
Tags: focus on solutions, MIchelle Gielan, positive thinking, solution-based focus
09.29.2016
Why Working More Is Making You Less Productive
Your downtime is more precious than you think. You could be much more efficient, productive and happy if you changed the way you view the hours in your day. Many of the business leaders and Harvard students I work with exhibit the telltale symptoms of the “workaholic’s curse.” They consider time spent away from work…
Tags: personal development, productivity, Shawn Achor
09.23.2016
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