Thinking about doing something is always harder than actually getting down to doing it. And the longer you spend thinking and putting off doing, the harder it is to get down to business.

We all know that by forming good habits and following through on them everyday, we can get a lot more done and feel better about ourselves. Sometimes before we can form those life changing good habits, we have to break some bad ones first.

If you want to achieve anything you need to have a very clear idea of what you want to accomplish and why.

Life doesn’t bend its will according to effort or the good intentions of the people living it. Sometimes, a lot of the time there’s someone else more qualified or with better connections or who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to grab away that thing you were trying so hard to get.

Unless you’re trying to do something no one else on the planet has ever accomplished or even conceived of, then you are not the first.

There are lots and lots of things you can do everyday to lighten your load and make the going easier. Getting enough sleep, eating right, keeping a positive attitude, and remembering the importance of gratitude are all important.

If you’ve got a great new idea that you want to present to your boss the last thing you want to do is explain it over email.

So often we hear It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Generally that’s taken in the context of tone of voice and body language, but oftentimes the specific words you use to express yourself are just as important.

Instead of always being at the beck and call of the email beast, feed it your time and on your terms

If you climb ten flights of stairs you will be fatigued (most of us anyway).  We all know about physical fatigue because it’s so easy to see the cause and effect. Spend twenty minutes on a treadmill and there’s no question what tired you out. Did you also know you can get decision fatigue? 

Stress is good in small doses. It’s important too.

Why do you exercise?  To get in shape? To stay in shape? To improve your health? To become stronger, live longer? The myriad of physical benefits are all outstanding reasons to exercise. As a side benefit exercise also helps with just about everything else, including your professional life.

Here are three tips to help you focus and get on with the task turning a mess of to-dos into an ordered set of accomplishments.

Ever feel like some people are just plain luckier than you? Like success bumps into them while they were sitting around sipping a soda at the ice cream bar, while it keeps walking by you?

No matter how perfect or imperfect things may seem in any given moment, they won’t stay that way.  Life cannot ever stay the same. People change, circumstances change, ideas, thoughts and trends change.

Maybe you are very content with how much you manage to accomplish everyday, however if you’re like most you probably look at the super successful and wonder how they manage to squeeze in so much.  It turns out the very successful have a few things in common.

When they teach you to drive they tell you to point your eyes in the direction you want to go. Same things goes for your mind. Set it in the direction of your goals and aspirations and with your foot on the gas, the time will fly by.

It’s seems like all of us live in a world of filled with no free time. Like we’re always late for something, or in the middle of something, or feeling guilty about not doing something else.

Feel like you’re always racing to get things done everyday? Like you’re always falling behind? Maybe it’s less a question of needing more time and more a question of being more productive with the time you have.