Many owners of shopping malls and strip malls have been working to fill vacancies resulting from the recession, and they are warmly welcoming gyms such as Youfit. According to this week’s South Florida Business Journal, gyms are a good choice for shopping centers because they can help bring a steady stream of traffic to the other [...]

The book Outliers noted one quality shared by successful people in all industries, from all backgrounds: they work “much, much harder” than their peers.

That seems to be a general theme whenever someone accomplishes an extraordinary feat. Compared to their peers, successful athletes and famous musicians practice “much, much harder” and according to The Millionaire Next Door, wealthy people often [...]

Miami-based professional organizers Sandra Felton and Marsha Sims co-authored Organizing Your Day: Time Management Techniques that Will Work for You. The book is filled with stories, analogies, famous quotes, and proven techniques (e.g., Covey’s four-quadrant model, the importance of prioritizing, de-cluttering, and rethinking the efficiency of multitasking.) Readers might feel as if they are enjoying an informal, [...]

We’ve all heard how deadly distractions can be when we’re driving. If we’re reaching for a ringing cell phone or texting while driving, we can quickly lose control of the car.
Distractions can cause us to quickly lose control of our career, too. It’s very easy to develop a train of thought that sounds like this: [...]

Does it ever seem like you’re drowning in multiple stacks of documents, forms, bills, journals/magazines, junk mail, coupons, receipts, post-it notes, and various other papers at home or the office? If so, you’re not alone. Many people seem to be swamped with countless pieces of paper, and finding a place to store/file/stack it all is [...]

“When God made time, he made plenty of it.” That old Irish saying can seem hopelessly out of date when we’re breathlessly juggling so many priorities at today’s breakneck pace. After all, a recent study concluded there are now five times as many young people struggling with anxiety as there were during the Great Depression.
If [...]

Job descriptions seem to unquestioningly include the skill of multitasking as part of the basic foundation of a successful career, along with good communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team. Indeed, brief commercials such as the following imply that people are simply inefficient if they lack the ability to multitask [...]

 Don’t lose yourself in social media/networking. Networking is the lifeblood of many successful businesses, but there is a fine line between actively staying in contact with your social network and letting precious hours slip through your fingers while you’re answering voice mail, text messages, instant messages, email, Twitter messages, Facebook messages, and so forth. If [...]

Randy Komisar was interviewed about his concept of the deferred life plan. He explained that many of us invest long hours of hard work in the hopes of someday doing what we love, but we never seem to get a return on our investment! Komisar pointed out that there’s nothing wrong with hard work and sacrifice [...]

The brilliant Randy Pausch gave a one-hour lecture on time management that has now been viewed by almost a million people on YouTube. Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, Pausch was keenly aware of the importance of using the gift of time wisely. He died less than 10 months after delivering this lecture.
One viewer commented, “Simply inspiring… [...]