
The Value of Knowing Your Values
What Is a Value? Turning to “The Google,” here’s the definition: a person's principles or standards of behavior; one's judgment of what is important in life. For example, money and time are not actually values (despite the picture). It is what money and time give us (or we think they give us) that we value. An even easier way to think about it is this: Every action you take (or choose not to take) reflects your values, whether or not you realize it. And that’s the important p

A True Story About the Power of Prioritizing
What's your biggest time-sucking, energy-wasting activity? Email? Scheduling? Facebook? While all of the above are known for sucking you into a black hole where time has no meaning, the one "activity" you probably didn't consider is indecision. Yep, many of us spend countless minutes and hours swirling in indecision, back-and-forthing, pro-and-conning. There's the time spent thinking about a decision, researching a decision, talking to people about the decision—and then there