10 Reasons We Procrastinate. Picture Credit: Pixabay – ar130405 In my free e-book, How to Stop Procrastinating and Start Doing I discuss what’s happening in our brains when we procrastinate. We default to a “I’d rather do this than that” state of mind. Since that’s the case, how do we stop procrastinating? How can we move forward? How can we …
The 4 Step Process to Mnemonic Image Building We’ve all heard about neuro- hacks and frankly hacking into our brains is one of the best ways to build better habits. In this post I’ll discuss one of my favorite hacks, Mapping your Memory Palace. Memory Palace techniques incorporate the use of our brain’s visual center. The mnemonic image building help us …
The roads we travel may lead to dead ends, but the journey we take in life doesn’t have to. When we navigate through our professional career we often come to dead ends. Dead ends called burn outs,layoffs and acquisitions. Burn outs caused by selecting a career that wasn’t right for us. Dead ends can come in many forms, and at first they all seem like the end, but a cold hard stop can actually be a new beginning.
Lately I’ve been writing about the SCIENCE behind change, change that we desire and change that lasts. I’m going to continue that series but decided to take a mini break and write about careers and more specifically career change. I’m not sure where you stand on the topic but let’s face it, often conversation starters, start with “What do you …
Have you ever wondered where the phrase “less is more” originated? It dates back to 1855 and was published in a poetry collection by Robert Browning. The collection was named, “Andrea del Sarto, The Faultless Painter.” “I could count twenty such … Who strive … To paint a little thing like that you smeared Carelessly passing with your robes afloat– …
It seems like everyone is selling products and services and the media overwhelms us with options. When we surf the net we are likely haunted by our previous click. We’ll be in the middle of reading an article or blog and be rudely interrupted. When we add the plethora of choices we become more distracted. Option after option definitely puts …
Social Connections? Money? Health? In last week’s blog, Why It’s So Important to Know What’s Important, How to Understand Our Self Control and Our Choices we talked about how we plan to choose one thing but often don’t stick to that plan. Self-control can be a challenge, so to achieve better outcomes clients often sign commitment contracts. These contracts hold …
How to Understand Our Self-Control & Our Choices We all choose to do what’s important to us. But how do we determine what those important things are? Many things line up hoping for first place priority. How do we rank those things? More importantly, how do we make sure we follow through and get those things done? It turns out …
Last week I wrote about building Step Ladders to help you reach goals. That blog and this series is based off of a proven model written in Sean Young’s book, Stick With It – A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing Your Life for Good. Sean works at UCLA as a behavioral psychologist and medical school professor. He is the Executive …
Do you long to be in a different situation? Do you want to achieve a goal that seems out of reach? Maybe you want to focus on your health but increasing exercise and eating better is a pipe dream. You’ve tried those things so many times and continue to fail. Is the problem a lack of will power? Is the …