My wife and I have discussed joining Weight Watchers for the past several months.  She’s in great shape and doesn’t need it, but I love to eat and it was time for some moderation. We signed up over the weekend and I began to use Weight Watchers’ online tracking program.  You use it to plug in everything you eat as well as activity levels.  It then shows you in graphic detail how well you’re doing.  After two...

Yesterday I came across a very interesting 45 minute video about Adult ADD/ADHD at the Canadian Global News Web site. The program, ADD & Loving It, shines a light on this much  misunderstood affliction in a very informative and entertaining way.  I have no idea how long they plan to keep this posted, so if you are interested you may want to view it sooner rather than later. The program includes interviews with  Dr. Edward Hollowell,...

Recently I was watching a Ken Burns documentary on PBS the other day about the history of the National Parks in the the US (at least I was until I fell asleep).  I was shocked (but not surprised) by a photograph showing hundreds of rotting buffalo carcasses slaughtered for sport. It was an example how our ancestors managed to nearly destroy the buffalo population over a very short period of time. At that time the Great Plains must have...

What’s the difference between how successful executives manage their time and the rest of us? Often people think it’s because they have an army of lackeys waiting to take care of their every whim.  That may be true to a point, but each of us is responsible for how we spend our time,  focus and attention.  No matter how many helpers a person has it’s up to them to decide where to focus their attention. After working...

Do you feel totally overloaded?  Do you have too much to do and not enough time to do it?  Are you trying to cram 50 pounds of you know what into a 20 pound bag?    You attempts to do that could be contributing to the problem. Over the past month or so I’ve been writing about the biggest time wasters I see when working with clients. Today I’m skipping over numbers two and three to get to number four…Attempting to Do...