For Business Owners Who Are Physically Active
Have you ever done something athletic in your adult life? Done a triathlon, a marathon, climbed Everest, or anything similar? A weightlifting competition? Anything that you’ve trained for - maybe a 5K run or walk?
If so, then you know not every day is a day to go as hard as you can. Training plans for most of these events include recovery days, where you might do some easy yoga or go for a walk. For its best performance, your body requires some rest and recovery, both during training and afterward.
Is There a Link Between Productivity and Healthspan?
You’ve probably started planning and saving for retirement, at least financially. Have you planned for your mental and physical health in retirement? If not, now is a good time to start!
March 17 is Wellderly Day. American culture has made it harder to get to old age in a healthy way, just as it makes paying attention to important tasks harder. However, you can push back on both – and the sooner you start, the better.
The Belief in “More” Leads to Burnout
Here in the US, we tend to think that “more” of practically anything is ideal. If medium fries are good, a large must be even better. If a half hour of exercise is good, then eight hours a day is better. If a multivitamin is good, one with even more vitamins in it is better.
Sometimes more is better, but very often there’s a ceiling past which more actually harms you. Too much of certain vitamins can damage your body. People have died drinking too much water as they were running a marathon.
Many of us pride ourselves on hard work, and of course, more is better, right?
Flexibility in Your Business Framework
Have you ever been to the top of the Empire State Building in New York? (Or any other skyscraper?) When you go out to the observation deck, especially on a windy day, you’ll feel the platform sway a little bit.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
Go Slow (Sometimes) to Succeed
When people think of productivity, they often think of doing things faster. Learning 50 keyboard shortcuts to take off a millisecond here or there when typing, ignoring the demands of your bladder to try to push through, trying to work a problem that takes half an hour in the five minutes you have between back-to-back meetings.
Going slowly, or taking breaks, or doing something analog instead of digitally seems like it would be, well, counterproductive to productivity, right? In certain cases, though, slowing down helps you speed up in a healthy way.
Harmony and Holidays
I think the more people get back to what makes them happy outside of work, the better off the world will be. Being happy outside of work also helps you accomplish more when you’re at work, because doing things you enjoy with people you enjoy helps you recharge your brain.
Brace Yourselves: The Season of Overdoing is Here
For some reason, the holidays tend to bring out the perfectionism in many business owners. Even though objectively this is the WORST time to expect perfection from yourself or anyone else. Plus, you might overdo at work and then try to overdo it at home too.
S Is For Sustainable
When it comes to productivity and improving your ability to accomplish your priorities in a shorter period of time, making sure that your “productivity tank” is full helps you squeeze the most out of each day without working more hours.
Maintaining Your Best Productivity Tool
This tool seems very underappreciated, but learning to work with it and maintain it will give you a sustainable productivity boost that will also help prevent burnout.
Drink Differently to Improve Productivity
Are you one of the many Americans who drink to relax after a long, hard day at work? You’re not alone, and you already know it’s not a great habit. But you might not realize how much a drink affects productivity the next day.
Litigating Lawyers Deserve Lives They Love Too
Not all attorneys enjoy litigating, but those that do seem to enjoy it a lot! At Desert Diva we love and support lawyers of all kinds – August 31 is Love Litigating Lawyers Day so we’re sending extra support to our litigators!
Bad Poetry for Better Productivity
While many animals communicate with each other – whales sing, howler monkeys screech, and crows caw – as far as we know, humankind is the only one that writes poetry. August 18th is Bad Poetry Day...
But what does poetry have to do with productivity?
Reading is Fundamental (For Productivity)
When was the last time you dropped into a physical book? Not one that you listened to, but actually physically opened up and read? Has it been a while?
Reading is one of those “unproductive productivity” specialties that isn’t work.
The Hidden Secret of Wellbeing For Business Owners
What if I told you that there was a secret to being more productive that also made you mentally and physically healthy? You’d want to know it, right?
And yet, everyone knows this secret… but they dismiss it.
Why Is Work-Life Balance Important?
There are many professionals, especially in the legal and financial fields, who see long workdays and dedication to their work as a badge of honor. They don’t see why hobbies or fun activities outside work would be valuable – especially since those things certainly don't bring home the bacon! Or at least not at first glance.
Fire Up Some Freedom of Time This 4th of July
It’s almost Independence Day (I know because my neighbors have been firing up the firecrackers for a couple weeks now) and it’s time to celebrate!
There are a lot of different ways to be independent.
Power Up Your Productivity
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
With the roses you’re smelling
And everyone telling you be of good cheer
It’s the most wonderful time of the year.”
Prevent Alzheimer’s and Promote Productivity
When I was a financial planner, I had a client who was taking care of her mother, who had early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Creativity is Critical For Business Owners
When you’re working 14-hour days most of the time, you won’t be able to be creative. Not to mention the risk of burnout, poor decision-making, etc. That leads to the question: Is not being creative really a problem for entrepreneurs?
The Truth About Productivity: Time is Not Money
It’s true that all our boundaries around work time have been destroyed by smartphones and apps designed to be addictive. The iPhone came out in 2007, and the first Android clone in 2008.