Tag: <span>methods</span>

Tag: methods

Life Balance, Success

Frogs and Tomatoes Beat Procrastination

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How many of you spent time creating goals for 2016?  How many of your goals fell by the wayside  because of PROCRASTINATION and anxiety about not having enough time? Wouldn’t it be great to have a strategy to deal with procrastination and make some real progress, particularly on those goals you don’t really enjoy? Find Your Frogs and Eat Them! In his best-selling book “Eat That Frog!”, Brian Tracy talks about “Eating the Frog First”.  The “Frog” represents the task or goal you least want to tackle or get started on.  Here is strategy about how to tackle “the frogs” in your life.  He suggests that you Eat the Frog First to start your day. That way, it is off your plate, and you don’t have a “frog” sitting on your shoulder.  Combining this technique with the time-management technique below could be a winning combination for Getting Things Done, accomplishing your new goals in 2017, and actually overcoming procrastination. Fight Procrastination with Tomatoes The Pomodoro Technique was developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s to help people break down tasks into manageable work units and stay on task to complete them. The core of the technique is the belief that …

Communication, Success

Use an Elephant to Improve Communication

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How many times have you been in a meeting and know there is something that needs to be said (everyone is feeling/sensing it) and no one is talking about it???  This leads to communication break downs within organizations, which can negatively impact productivity, effectiveness, relationships, success and fulfillment in the workplace. What can we do about it?  You got it! Talk about the Elephant in the Room! What’s the elephant? In case you haven’t heard the term before: “Elephant in the room” or ” Elephant in the living room ‘ is a metaphorical idiom for an obvious truth that is going unaddressed. The idiomatic expression also applies to an obvious problem or risk no one wants to discuss. Wikipedia definitions The term refers to a question, problem, solution, or controversial issue which is obvious to everyone who knows about the situation, but which is deliberately ignored because to do otherwise would cause great embarrassment, or trigger arguments or is simply taboo. The idiom can imply a value judgment that the issue ought to be discussed openly, or it can simply be an acknowledgment that the issue is there and not going to go away by itself. This idiomatic phrase is applicable when a subject is emotionally charged; and the people who might …