Increase your income and enhance your career prospects by learning about project management! The next series of posts will be a story to introduce basic project management concepts to anyone not already familiar with project management. By reading the next several posts, anyone curious about project management will be able to make an informed decision about whether it might be a fit for them. This story format offers an efficient and interesting way of learning about project

Bottom line of this post:  learning French and/or Spanish will  benefit you for the rest of your life. You’ve probably heard people tell...

Getting good at something is often harder than it looks. It usually takes more time and effort than you initially think, but one word that stands out from nearly all others to describe what it really  takes to get somewhere: focus . Focus is a state of mind that allows you to achieve mental clarity on how to do something. You can clearly see how to get something done and the path of action you need to take is clear, making you much more likely to take that action and succeed.

Do you want to make the most of your time? Work a little harder now so you can relax for a lot longer later? Everybody only has 24 hours in a day, but what you do now can make a big difference in how much time you can spend on things you want to do later. Or you might want to spend the same amount of time on something but get more out of it. Either way, this post will share a good way to sort how you can spend your time into three categories: wasting, maintaining, and buildin

Most people, when they think of a goal they want to achieve, think of doing some great thing that takes a lot of work and skill....

For the third post in the Accelerated Learning series on getting things done, following the importance of being organized  and using the right level of planning , it’s time to talk about your basic, daily go-to tool for organizing and planning: the daily to-do list . Two important rules for anyone’s to-do list are:

In my previous post, It All Starts with Organization , I recommended near the end to make a plan for any effort of more than very minor complexity. But if you spend forever planning and never take action, what good is making the plan?

On a quiet day at the office several years ago, I had an important realization that I'll share with you below: It all starts with...