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Category Archives: Performance Optimization
Venus Williams on Confidence
Do you believe these statements? Confidence is a choice. Confidence can be learned. Confidence is a skill you can acquire. Or, do you believe these statements? Some people are born confident. Confidence is an innate state of mind. You’re either … Continue reading
Make More Time: Be Non-negotiable
What if you told everyone in your life that you were absolutely, positively going to carve out time for yourself every single day, no matter what? You know you’ve got something you want to work on. Something new you want … Continue reading
Increase Your Focus: Write Down Your Goals
Some strategies are so simple they seem silly, even downright stupid. Here’s one of those: Write down your goals for today! As simple and silly as this strategy is, it’s extremely effective in helping you keep your focus. If you’ve … Continue reading
A Mental Shift for Getting into the Zone
Being in the Zone. There’s nothing like it. Everything works. You stop thinking about time. You don’t worry about your thoughts or actions. Your techniques are on auto-pilot. It’s everyone’s dream to be in the Zone when it really matters: … Continue reading
Presenting to Senior Executives
Many talented, driven, smart executives give great presentations to their peers, direct reports, and colleagues in their field. Then, when it comes time to present to senior leaders at their organization, they freeze up, they ramble, they lose confidence. There’s … Continue reading
Increase Your Focus: Have an Ending Time
Want to increase your focus? Always have an ending time for your activity. An ending time serves as a mini-deadline, and deadlines have a way of making us focus a lot more intently than we usually do. Plan your ending … Continue reading
Increase Your Focus: Restart
Even though research shows that people can’t focus intently on an activity for more than 17 – 20 minutes at a time, this research also shows that you can re-start what you’re doing and give your brain the chance to … Continue reading
Make More Time: Use a Calendar
Want to make more time in your day? Use a calendar or some other scheduling tool or app. Use a wall calendar, planner book, free online calendar, or an app that sends you reminders. It doesn’t really matter what form … Continue reading
How to Make More Time
What if you could make more time in the day? We all know that there are only 24 hours in the day. We also know that some people seem to get almost nothing done in those 24 hours, and other … Continue reading
Consider Your Audience
In every situation in life, we need to consider who are audience is when we talk to them. This is true in business, in your personal life, in conversations, in presentations, pretty much everywhere. And, the idea of considering your … Continue reading
