This is the summer that you do not have to miss out on anything. — I hate the feeling of forgetting something. Like when I’m heading out for vacation but I’m filled with a nagging feeling that I’ve forgotten to pack something important (that I’ll only remember right when I need it most.) Or walking into a meeting and realizing I left an important document…

Small, unexpected tweaks can be the start of the big changes you need to control the stress in your life — 2:47 a.m. on April 18th is the exact moment I knew. I was lying in bed, wide awake, just like the past four nights. But this night, well, morning actually, I finally understood what was wrong. …

Getting things done can be hard enough without taking the last shred of fun out of them — Do you know what’s frustrating? (Besides figuring out how to grow basil successfully, which is driving me a little bonkers right now.) …

How SMART Goals can be altered to help you be successful every time — Hey, hi there! Just popping in to see how you’re doing with the goals you set a few months ago. I know it was right around New Year’s Eve, and you were probably a little giddy from your 37-day-long sugar-cookie binge. You may have been a bit overly optimistic about…

Distractions of any kind can easily throw your day off. Here’s what to do to stay on track. — The loud, determined scratching noises were coming from inside the house. And they weren’t stopping. That was the scene at 4 a.m. last Thursday as my husband, and I woke up to something crawling in our attic. While we live inside the city limits, we aren’t very far from a…

The lessons show up when you least expect them — What lasts 6–8 minutes, is filled with great ideas and even more laughs, and is celebrating a big-league milestone today? The Faster, Easier, Better Show podcast, which I co-host. Today, the 250th episode went live. …

Your brain wants to help you figure things out. Let it. — “Take my money!” That’s probably what you would be saying if you found out that there was a magic pill you could take that made it easier to think more clearly, be more creative, and come up with better ideas more quickly. The implications for your life, both work, and…

The same strategy that keeps kids from drinking window cleaner can keep you from losing the day — I’m going to go out on a (very short) limb and say you’re probably not surprised by what distracts you every day. Like so many things in life, most of your distractions are the same thing day in and day out. Sure, there are times when the unexpected happens, like…

Your obstacles can become the triggers that enable you to accomplish any kind of goal. Even if its just getting your dry cleaning. — In the last three weeks, my neighborhood has become a perplexing hub of road construction. Actually, it’s misleading to say “road construction” since a lot of what’s happening seems to be “We’ve put up all these big orange signs now to block traffic, but we’re not really going to be…