Sure, you’re a committed professional with the best of intentions, a high achiever, a perfectionist and with a personal reputation to uphold. Naturally you work hard, you put in long hours and the extra, because that’s just par for the course, it’s expected. You don’t tolerate anything less than 110% commitment to anything you do.

There’s just one problem.

Not only does this make your work less enjoyable over time (no matter how much you’re
passionate about it), the paradox is it leads to lower productivity, effectiveness and efficacy, and I’m sorry to say this, it makes you a proverbial pain in the backside for your colleagues who are fed up with your irritability, mood swings, worsening negativity and constant litany of complaints about your colleagues, your clients, the economy, the government, parking fines and anything else you’ve turned your attention to.

Bah Humbug!

A friend recently shared about a conversation they had had with someone else about their priority list and it got me wondering. Firstly, because it took me a couple of moments to work out “What IS the third item on my priority list for today?” Secondly, “Why...

Forget about those New Year’s Resolutions and try goal setting instead. While that fleeting intention and good resolve may have some merit what’s more useful is to examine how effective goal setting can help you achieve more of your heart’s desires and with less angst...