Watching Eugenie Bouchard rule the court or Lindsey Vonn race down a mountainside, one cannot help but admire such athletic prowess. But even an elite athlete has good days and better days. Thanks to an article in The Economist, I learned of recent attention given...
A young athlete with a promising pro career, often plans to buy a house, along with a new car and a few luxuries as soon as the contract is signed. But is that the wisest move? While there’s no doubt that a comfortable home can offer pride in ownership, it also comes...
Often, we think about pressure as existing in moments of high intensity—the pressure to save a life in the ER, to pass the bar exam, or to score the decisive point in the last seconds of a game. Pressure, however, can exist over an extended period time as months of...
I’m always looking for new insights into mental tools that help us to be more constructive in our approach to work and life. While reading an article about self-confidence, I was struck by the idea of reframing one’s “less successful” experiences, not judging such...
Can we learn to work with time, instead of struggling against it? Recently, I added a post about Parkinson’s Law, which seems to be too often true, although not inevitable. So how can we apportion the time we have on any given day, for any task, to be more...
If you’ve studied productivity, you’ll recognize the axiom above as Parkinson’s Law, the proposition of British naval historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson. The statement first appeared in a 1955 article in The Economist and later, as the basis of one of Parkinson’s...
