Posts Tagged ‘planning’

Your Happiness Plan

A Quick Survey Before we get under way with today’s briefer-than-normal chat, I want to conduct a little research on the run. Put up your hand if happiness is one of your aims in life. And no, participation is not optional at Stepcase Lifehack today. Yep, even you scaredy cats. Okay, keep ‘em up so I can count… 1001, 1002, 1003… yep; that’s all of you. Guessed as much. So it seems that… Continue reading

November 2 2009 | By Craig | Tagged: happiness, life, materialism, personal-development, planning | 13 comments»

A 6-Step Guide to Networking for First Year MBA Students

If you are a first year MBA student, especially if you are at a lesser-known MBA program, networking is going to be an essential component to landing your summer internship. Start Early If there’s any piece of advice that I would give first year MBA students it’s that your job search stats the day you start school, and if you are really a go-getter even before you arrive at school. There are… Continue reading

September 24 2009 | By | Tagged: business, career, education, networking, planning, student, success, work-life | 3 comments»

Overplanning Can Kill Your Business Idea

Most articles about starting a business cover planning. Creating your business plan. Creating your marketing plan. Creating page upon page of plans, plans with great intentions and perhaps excellent potential for success. There’s nothing wrong with planning itself; if there was, I’m sure we wouldn’t see such an emphasis on it in business literature. But not so often mentioned is the dark side of planning, and it’s the dark side that… Continue reading

April 27 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: business, ideas, Money, planning | 7 comments»

Where to After College? A Review of “How’d You Score THAT Gig?” by Alexandra Levit

One of the few things scarier than going to college is graduating from college. Once you toss that mortarboard in the air, "real life" sets in: it's time to get a job. Or better yet, to start a career. Therein lies the rub. For most college students, not only has there been little instruction about how to start building a career, there's also been little guidance about how to choose a… Continue reading

April 17 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: alexandra-levit, book review, career, college, job, planning, student | 3 comments»

The One Thing You Need to Close the Deal on Change

You know what you want. You know what to do. So why is nothing happening? There are thousands of texts and approaches in the productivity & success universe. Many of them are good, some are great. Some, like the writings of Marcus Buckingham approach genius in their rich simplicity. So why, if there are so many great ways to become more productive and more successful, are so many of us still struggling… Continue reading

February 23 2009 | By Clemens | Tagged: change, coach, coaching, entreprenuership, mentor, planning, process | 8 comments»

Organization Session: A Weekly Check In Practice for Ultimate Development

Creating a weekly retreat gives yourself a delightful space to reconnect, review, and readjust, where necessary. It is a big picture look in which you set up the blueprint for your week. This frees you up so that you can relax into it and trust that you have already implemented the wishes of your highest self. Everything works more beautifully as you get better at being more aware of what you want while setting up your time. Continue reading

February 16 2009 | By Danielle Marie | Tagged: blueprint, clarity, daily, opportunity, organization, perspectives, planning, priority, routine, self-development, thrive | 5 comments»

Toward a New Vision of Productivity, Part 8: Planning for Life

This is the eighth part of a 12-part series I am posting from the end of December and into January 2009, examining the current understanding of productivity and where the concept might be heading in the future. I invite Lifehack’s

January 12 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: david-allen, goal, goal setting, gtd, life, mind-like-water, plan, planning | 5 comments»

Get D.U.M.B.! The Value of Unattainable Goals

With the year winding down, many people are turning their eyes towards the future. January 1st looms, and the new year always holds the promise of a fresh start, another go-round and another try at the golden ring.

It’s a time for taking stock, filing away the lessons of our successes and failures over the last 12 months and pinning down our hopes and dreams for… Continue reading

December 12 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: achievement, D.U.M.B., goal, goal setting, new year, planning | 28 comments»

Achieve Your Goals by Focusing on Critical Activities

What are your critical activities? Critical activities are those activities that directly move you towards your goals. Every goal has critical activities. The problem is that most of us spend significant amounts of time doing things that are not critical. Often we convince ourselves that they are something we ‘need’ to do to be successful, but usually they are things that are not critical. Step #1 – Identify your goals You can’t… Continue reading

December 8 2008 | By Danny | Tagged: accomplishment, critical_activities, goal, growth, planning, success | 8 comments»

6 Simple Steps to Make Progress Towards Achieving A Goal

Every day that goes by you either move closer towards achieving a goal or you move further away from that goal. If you take specific steps you can be assured that you are moving towards our goal. If you do nothing you are moving away from the goal. By being still, you lose momentum, and the level of inertia of our current position increases. Following these steps will guarantee… Continue reading

November 26 2008 | By Danny | Tagged: achievment, development, focus, goal, growth, planning, success | 19 comments»

How To Ace Graduate School Entrance Exams

Every student's nightmare: Another life altering standardized test. To make matters worse, it's increasingly likely college seniors won't be able to find a job after graduation. You might have heard your friends talking about graduate school. Is everyone doing it? You don't need to look far to see: Graduate and professional school enrollment is on the rise across America. The recently unemployed, college seniors, and those looking for a… Continue reading

November 17 2008 | By Brandon | Tagged: advice-for-students, career, college, education, job, planning, student, university | 12 comments»

Advice for Students: Start Planning Now for Life After College

At the end of every school year, the media is stuffed with advice for soon-to-be graduates looking forward with excitement -- and not a little fear – to setting out on their careers. I’ve althinways felt that this was just a little bit too late – by the time June rolls around, you’re competing with literally millions of recent grads, all frantic to find some kind of handhold in this… Continue reading

September 24 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: advice-for-students, career, college, education, job, planning, student, university | 13 comments»

Back to Basics: Procrastination – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Procrastination is very literally the opposite of productivity. To produce something is to pull it forward, while to procrastinate is to push it forward -- to tomorrow, to next week, or ultimately to never. Procrastination fills us with shame -- we curse ourselves for our laziness, our inability to focus on the task at hand, our tendency to be easily led into easier and more immediate gratifications. And with good reason… Continue reading

September 19 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, concepting, idea, planning, procrastination, task | 24 comments»

Ten Lessons from China’s Olympics Preparations

It looks like much of the gold that was brought to China for this year’s Olympics will remain there after the games' end. Michael Phelps’ legendary 8 gold medals for the US team helped the Americans bring up their count but not nearly enough to keep them in the top spot for winning gold since the fall of the Soviet empire. Even if you discount a few from China for… Continue reading

August 29 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: china, goal, leadership, olympics, planning, preparation, Productivity, strength, teamwork | 14 comments»