A couple weeks ago I had some work that I really, really needed to get done. I was way behind schedule and my deadline was the next day. Ugh!
That afternoon, a good friend sent me an Instant Message inviting me to a concert.  I typed my reply, “I really wish I could, but I’ve got [...]

I realize it’s my responsibility to motivate myself and get myself working productively on the things I need to work on. Sometimes that can be a very difficult though, especially when I need to do work that requires a lot of creativity or other mental energy. Everyone experiences this sort of thing at time, but [...]

I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I find that for most people there isn’t a lot of resolve there and they quickly fail at their so-called “resolution”. I’m no exception to this.
However, I do set goals for things I would like to achieve over the course of the year. In recent years, I’ve fallen short [...]

It’s been a while since I posted about my diagnosis with Adult ADHD earlier this year. When I wrote that post, I promised that I would be sharing more about my experience and especially about the coping mechanisms that I’ve implemented to help me overcome some of the difficulties.
The Liberation of an Adult ADHD Diagnosis
Let [...]

I’ve always hated exercise. Even the words exercise and working out repulse me.
I’m not exactly sure why. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that while I excelled academically when I was in school, I didn’t excel in physical education nor on the playground nearly so much. Those words have always carried very [...]

For a few years now I’ve had a crazy idea in the back of mind. I don’t know that it’s time to execute the idea yet, but I thought I’d post here and at least get some discussion going on the idea.
My History in the Boy Scouts of America and Activity in the Merit Badge [...]

I joined the Chair City Toastmasters club here in Thomasville North Carolina about a year and a half ago. After all that time, I’m glad to announce that I’ve finally earned my Competent Communicator Award.  This is the first step on my path to Distinguished Toastmaster. For those of you who know something about the [...]

For the past two years, I’ve been focusing on being more conscious of the words that I use and how those words reflect my own integrity. I originally wrote most of this blog post in April of 2006 and never published it. After reading personal productivity consultant Matthew Cornell’s post on Three indecisiveness phrases, [...]

Believe it or not, all the online information on Productivity, Organization, and Motivation isn’t available via RSS. Some of it is only available via email newsletters. I have one email address that I always use for subscribing to eNewsletters. I’ll frequently go weeks, and sometimes even months without checking it and then I set aside [...]

Day 31? Perceptive readers are asking, “Don’t you mean Day 33?”
No. It’s actually Day 31. The truth is that I fell off the wagon back on what would have been Day 24 and Day 25.
On Sunday, August 12th, I taught Sunday School at church, so I decided to polish my lesson that morning instead of [...]