Get Productive: Book Yourself Solid

by NeenJames

Many of you would know of Michael Port’s original book Book Yourself Solid … did you know he recently released an Illustrated version? What’s special about that you ask… well so many things! If you are a visual learner and enjoy writing inside books and treating them like workbooks – you will love this version. [...]

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Get More Money: How to Ask for a Pay Raise

May 13, 2013

When we have our annual review, sometimes our thoughts lead to money… maybe it’s time for a pay rise? Many people are too scared to ask for a pay rise.  Why is this?  If you believe you deserve a raise, spend time examining these strategies and schedule a time with your manager to ask for [...]

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Get Productive: Use Text Expander for Mac Users

April 23, 2013

If you are a Mac user you MUST get this app! I know that is strong language and I am not kidding you. No one paid me to write this, no one is paying me to promote this – it saves me hours of typing and hours of time! Text Expander is an app you [...]

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Get Productive: Do The Work

April 20, 2013

In his book Do the Work: Overcome Resistance and get out of your own way, Steven Pressfield had great one liners, deep thoughts and challenging questions for his reader. When I read it I was struggling with an aspect of my practice and feeling overwhelmed… however I was still moving forward. It is worth reading, [...]

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Get Productive: Show someone you care – especially this week!

April 19, 2013

With all that is happening around the world (and especially if you are living anywhere near Boston or have someone you love affected by this horrible event) it is easy to become overwhelmed and wonder if you can really make an impact… well you can! If you want to make an impact on someone today [...]

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Get Productive: Work in Your Strengths

April 9, 2013

Many authors have written books around discovering your strengths (Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton) and one of my favorites is Strengths Finder 2.0  by Tom Rath (I love the online assessment at the back of the book and the ability to just read the top five it identifies for you – your top strengths. If [...]

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Get Productive: Don’t lean in… step up!

April 7, 2013

By now you have heard the buzz about Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In. She is listed as one of the 50 most powerful women in Business. I really enjoyed her TED talk and you can watch it here on why we have too few women leaders. As a women in thought leadership, I would [...]

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Get Productive: Apps to Organize Your Life- Guest Blogger

April 7, 2013

When Thoreau spoke that the solution to a life “frittered away by detail” was to “simplify, simplify, simplify,” he couldn’t have imagined a world where we manage much of our lives via computers and their corresponding devices (and one where an error in the synchronization of that data can throw off our entire schedule). But [...]

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Get Productive: Make a 5-Degree Change

March 27, 2013

Recently I read the great book The 5 Degree Principle by one of the best coaches I know (and of course I am bias as she is a friend and someone I admire). Shannon Cassidy, CEO of bridge between  has created an easy to read resource that is full of practical strategies you can apply to [...]

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Get Productive: Be Great on Platform

March 26, 2013

Several years ago before attending the National Speakers Association Keynote lab (an industry event for those focused on delivering keynotes as part of their thought leadership practice),  I interviewed some of my favorite, generous and successful speakers. I had conversations with the legendary Scott McKain (whose voice I absolutely love), Chad Hymas (one of the [...]

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