Life Of E's

Successful people are productive people. Part of being productive is taking control over those areas where you can exert some control. Here are 10 areas of your personal and professional life over which you can exert some control: What you wear. I’m assuming that if you are reading this article, you are an adult. So you [...]

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Have you failed lately? It’s hard to imagine anyone reading this who hasn’t failed in a big or small way in the last few days. So, think of a current failure. If you are like me, you do not have to think too long about this. You may have felt failure as a parent, as [...]

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Can you change some of the events that are currently stressing you out?  Are there others over which you really have no control or even any influence?   Hmmm…it might be time to consider what belongs in the various categories for you. To help you visualize the idea we’re talking about in this article, just draw a [...]

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Do you radiate positive energy?  Does it have an impact on others?  Are you unsure about what qualities you may want to be radiating out to others? Winston Churchill said: “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” There are people you know (and I know) who radiate everything [...]

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To be productive as a writer, you need to actually write. I know this doesn’t come as a shock, yet I also know how easy it is to let other tasks, projects, people, or any number of other distractions take us away from our writing. Consider using the following words to describe your writing time [...]

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How can you stay in the present (mentally) – or get to the present? Here are 5 strategies: Breathe. The idea is that you breathe in. Then you breathe out. This helps you to get centered – and somewhere I read that the space between breathing in and breathing out – that’s the present. So [...]

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Let us say that you have decided to close the door to negative people (figuratively, of course). What is tough about this decision is that sometimes the negative people work in our offices (or live in our homes or are related to us in some way). Deciding to “close the door” on the people who [...]

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“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan In life, “A door must either be shut or open.” (Anonymous); I think that means we need to determine which doors we [...]

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Are you an “I-can-do-it-all-myself” person? Do you have some tasks, responsibilities, or projects that you have been procrastinating? I will assume that since you are still reading that the answer is yes to both. If you have a mental list of items that you are procrastinating, I first recommend that you get them out of [...]

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Eric Hoffer said, “A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” When you are deciding where to ‘live’ – in the past, in the future, in the present (or some other cosmic option you might know about) living in [...]

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