Bill Murray is one of my favorite actors. Seriously, I can’t get enough. Love the guy. I even loved the documentary about Bill Murray. But, why am I talking about Bill Murray? Well, because I think there are a couple of things we can learn from him when it comes…

Learning new skills and building habits is HARD. When you’re a kid, you’re learning all the time, you’re practicing, you’re getting better. You’re trying new things. New things that you’re not good at yet. You’re used to not being good at stuff. And when you’re a kid and you’re not…

I was reading a novel called The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida recently (well listening, actually) and there was a line that stopped me in my tracks. Literally. I had to stop running, pause the book, go back 15 seconds, listen again, and then immediately write it down because I…

Let’s face it: you, me and everyone else on the planet — we’re all gonna die with a big long list of things we didn’t do. But don’t worry. It’s ok. And not only is it ok; it’s inevitable. …

Planning. You may have all sorts of feelings about it. You might love it (because it makes you feel in control). Or you might think it’s futile. I mean, why plan if your plans always change? Right? Wrong. The fact that plans will inevitably change doesn’t negate the planning. In…

About once a year, I do something somewhat tedious, but so worth it because of the insights it brings me. This is something I do with all of my clients to help them understand where their time is going. To help them get a baseline. And I also like to…

If you’ve spent any time in the “productivity space” online, you’ll see something that at first appears to be a big debate: Is it better to use a task list, or to time block on your calendar? Before you read any further, let me ask you: Are you on “team…

Recently a friend left me a message. We’d been playing phone tag for days. In his message he apologized and made the offhand comment that he “doesn’t have any spare time”. (And forgive me if you’re reading this and you know I’m talking about you.) But his comment made me…

Let me ask you a question: Have you ever had a task or a project that you just kept procrastinating? Procrastinating until you could procrastinate no longer? And when you finally sat down to do it (because you had no other choice), it took less than 15 minutes? What happened…