Life of E's

In preparing for a workshop I was doing recently entitled “Input, Throughput, Output,” where I used the metaphor of a conveyor belt, I found the greatest clipart!  It showed a guy sitting at his desk and the desk was a conveyor belt.  I want you to get that picture in your mind…and then ask yourself whether [...]

Tags: clutter, desk, educate, eliminate, organize, prepare, Productivity, Professors, reduce, teachers

Hallowell, Edward, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-Paced Life. I recommend this book on a consistent basis – in my workshops for university faculty and also in the “Just Whelmed” emails (www.JustWhelmed.com).  It’s a powerful read, I promise.  If you love having books arrive FAST, be sure to sign [...]

Tags: amazon prime program, busy, crazy busy, CrazyBusy, Edward Hallowell

If you want to control your email instead of having it control you, then one of the first changes to make in your mindset is this…decide to decide. Here’s what I mean by that… Get it into your head before you ever sit down to work on your email that you are a decision maker! [...]

Tags: decide, decisions, email

Just heard from Mike Michalowicz, author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur – and here’s today’s blog post (and I’m number 11 I LOVE to have as many ideas for focus as possible…check out the post: http://www.toiletpaperentrepreneur.com/blog/how-to-stay-focused-63-very-focused-ways Meggin

When you are working to get rid of clutter, i.e., the ‘dandruff on the shoulders of your room’ (Christopher Lowell), one of the key tools you need is a pad of paper and a pen. Whenever you are decluttering, keep an easily-viewable and findable pad of paper (or a clipboard with paper) to write down [...]

Tags: classroom, clutter, declutter, ideas, Productivity

Imagine you are reading this blog post as a question and answer session…Just listen in (and this came in originally as a Life of *E*s Email Extravaganza (another of which I am getting ready to host again in a few minutes!): Q:  My current company is my original brand. I have invested a lot of time/money/energy promoting [...]

Tags: business, business growth, entrepreneur

A Gentle Suggestion It’s possible that you are someone for whom this is true: before you can even start paying attention to ways to boost your energy, you first need to think about valuing yourself and what you do to contribute to the world. In Suze Orman’s book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control [...]

Tags: overwhelm, Suze Orman, value

Winget, Larry.  How to Write a Book One Page at a Time. This book is apparently no longer in print, but maybe you can find a copy somewhere.  I’ve included the link to Amazon, although you can only buy it from used booksellers (at some wild prices, I must say).  I referenced it in the [...]

Tags: Amazon Prime, Larry Winget, writing page

A teacher who’s a subscriber sent me this email: “I’m a teacher and when I think about everything that has been added to the plate of today’s teacher, I wonder if it’s ever possible to just be ‘just whelmed’ again.” It’s a reality that people’s plates are “too full,” and thus pretty darn heavy. Practice [...]

Tags: just whelmed, overwhelmed, stress, Teaching

One way to diminish overwhelm is to hold things lightly. This is something I learned from my coach, Dr. Joelle Jay of Pillar Consulting.   When we first started working together several years ago, she would hear me talking about all the things I had to do, everything I was working on, how worn out I was, and, well, [...]

Tags: hold lightly, Joelle Jay, overwhelmed, Pillar Consulting