Stress that is good for you? It is possible. Good stress stems from working hard and productively, feeling accomplished at the end of a challenging day. Jenna Goudreau recently wrote an article in Business Week about stress factors. Good stress relates to concentration and creativity. This kind of stress is what encourages you to finally [...]

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There is a movement afloat, sponsored in part by the Take Back Your Time organization, that is calling for legislation to block companies from not allowing separate sick days and vacation leave. These companies instead combine the days and simply give you x number of days per year to take. The Fair Labor Standards Act [...]

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Where you live and your commute time can have more of an impact on your time management challenges than just the obvious number of minutes involved. First take a look at the ever-lengthening time involved in commuting. The Transportation Research Board states that the average round-trip commute is 51 minutes, and almost 10 million American [...]

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In the past several comments on the issue of vacation deprivation, based on the segment with the NBC Nightly News for which I was interviewed as their productivity expert in dealing with this issue, I talked about the increasing demands placed on our time, the intrusions of technology, and the need to use that “extra” [...]

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In the struggle for a relaxed vacation, technology is a major factor. It can be a plus or minus. In this posting, we will look at the negative, and then in the next one we will see it in a more positive light. The NBC Nightly News segment for which I was interviewed featured a [...]

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In the continuation of my posting responses to the question of why so many Americans do not use all of their vacation days, as brought up in my interview with NBC Nightly News, the next replies deal with the inability to get away. The feedback of many regarding the issue of vacation deprivation is that [...]

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In my blog posting following my interview by the NBC Nightly News last week about vacation deprivation in the United States, I said that I would spotlight some of the comments that resulted from my query asking my time management training audiences and consulting clients to share reasons why using earned vacation time is difficult. [...]

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Have you noticed how summer vacations seem to be shrinking? When I taught, there was a mug given to me that said: “Top 3 Reasons for Teaching: June, July, August.” While that is not true for the majority of dedicated teachers, it is a nice break from what can be a very intense career. No [...]

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45% of high-earning managers come home from work too tired to converse with spouses. (Harvard Business Review 12/2006) Whether you are a high-earning manager, a small business owner, or one of many in a department, how do you approach your family at the end of a day? One of the pitfalls of our need to [...]

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A man searching for the meaning of life climbed a mountain to seek out the advice of a wise monk. He asked that learned man what the key to happiness was. The monk answered, “Do whatever it is you are doing now!” How many times a day do you find yourself planning the next hours [...]

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