A Four Hour Work Week? Yes.
Before I read Tim Ferriss’s Four Hour Work Week, working from home and online seemed the ideal route for me. Four years ago when I began my transition to online, I was juggling two other teaching jobs. One part time at a local university. The other a full time assistant professor position at another university. [...]
Don’t Let Planning Get in the Way of Living!
I am a planner. Some would call this being a control freak and on many days, I might be inclined to agree with them. I come from a long line of planners, most evident being my mother, who went to her passage with notebooks full of ideas and unfinished dreams near her side. I too [...]
Focus on Goals: Day 4 – Wake Up Calls
Lo and behold, you might actually have a life that complicates the pursuit of your core goals! However, in order to achieve them you must stay focused, connected, and accountable to them. This holds especially true when you aren’t able to actively take steps towards them at any given moment due to your job, activities [...]
Focus on Goals-Day 3: Speak It and It Is
Over the past two days I have discussed tips to visualize goals. Today, we verbalize them. Seeing a picture or actualization in your mind is one powerful directive to manifesting your goals. Saying them out loud, both hearing them and saying them, creates an increasingly powerful dual effect. In “Speak It and It Is” you [...]
Focus on Goals- Day 2: Last Thought–First Thought
Focusing on Your Goals “Rainy Days and Mondays…” or so the song goes. After a particularly brutal Monday, I lay down to close it off. Exhaling I said, “Well, let’s hope tomorrow is a better day.” Then in my mind I replied to myself, “It will be. I’m setting it up right now.” This wasn’t [...]
Focus on Goals – Day 1: Vision Boards
Over the next 4 Days I will be presenting tips and tools for gaining sharper focus on your goals. Day 1 Vision Boards When we were younger, a common project was to create a collage of our thoughts, ideas, and dreams represented by words and images. Our teachers would plop us down with glue, blank [...]