Slow Living: How To Gear Up
When you're busy fulfilling the urge to be everyone's everything all the time, there something incredibly restoring to closing the door, waving the wh...
When you're busy fulfilling the urge to be everyone's everything all the time, there something incredibly restoring to closing the door, waving the wh...
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
For the first time since 1983, over 1 out of every 10 American is out of work. How's that for starting your Friday with some sobering news?
Tim Berry | Posted 10.30.2009 | Business
It's one of those days. Maybe you have technical problems, or a project that isn't going well, or you couldn't sleep last night. These are things that help break up a bad day.
wowOwow | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
Multitasking seems to have wormed its way into our brain matter and I'm not sure that's a good thing, but it's tough to turn back now....
beliefnet.com | Terry Hershey | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living
We live in a world that urges us to admire and pursue everything that's faster, newer, bigger. But here's the disquieting truth: a life based on urgen...
Dumb Little Man | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living
It has been shown in numerous studies that people who try and multitask actually lose efficiency and productivity levels drop....
cnn.com | Anthony Balderrama | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living
In a culture where we're constantly being told to be better than everyone at everything, slacking off can be the right way to go for your health and y...
Ellen Galinsky | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
Both employers and employees need to take responsibility for improving the health of the American workforce. Health care reform won't work without it.
Sandy Grason | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
I spent countless hours having these amazing, intellectually stimulating conversations but I wasn't taking any action. Mental masturbation.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
I know for myself, and judging by my unscientific poll of a lot of people I know, putting on shoes makes you feel ready for action. If you're a shoes-optional freelancer, telecommuter, homemaker, or part-timer, consider wearing your shoes when you're trying to be productive.
Jill Schlesinger | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
The results are in -- the Labor Department said that 216,000 were laid off in August, bringing the total number of Americans out of work since the beginning of the recession to 6.9 million.
Zachary Karabell | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business
With Wall Street -- and the Federal Reserve -- in a rush to declare the recession over, economic data indicates that the simple binary recession/no recession framework obscures more than it reveals.
Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business
If we are working fewer hours, getting lower wages and unable to borrow more, what comes next? New BLS data seriously questions the strength and endurance of the present economic rally.
Karen Leland | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
My declaration for what little time is left of summer is to spend less time sorting and more time being with family and friends, reading and lying out in sun.
Karen Leland | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living
Every night before I go to bed, I read a book. Depending on my mood, I may paw my way through a foodie memoir, a prize-winning novel, or a popular pi...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
Nothing can drain the happiness from you faster than a long, unproductive meeting. You're bored; you're not getting anything done; emails are piling up while you sit, trapped.
Karen Leland | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living
When I was a kid, one of my favorite candies was Pez. The bottom half of the dispenser was designed in the shape of a cigarette lighter, and the top w...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics
Taxpayers in both countries have been ripped off and should demand that some of this money be clawed back, the debt in both countries is still manageable.
planetgreen.discovery.com, TED | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green
Brian Merchant over at Planet Green writes that keeping plants indoors not only cleans the air, but may have an added benefit: But there's more--ac...
Noah St. John | Posted 06.06.2009 | Living
I believe that most moms are actually not multi-tasking, but juggle-tasking. This term describes when someone is juggling multiple tasks, projects, and even jobs.
Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living
Dear Maddisen, I am highly self critical, self judgmental, and even cruel to myself with my thoughts and my mental talk.
Russell Bishop | Posted 05.07.2009 | Living
Have you noticed an increasing amount of stress in your life? Sure, there are plenty of things to be concerned about, not the least of which is the e...
Don McNay | Posted 05.02.2009 | Business
I used to schedule an out of town trip then meetings the next day. Now I can't. I am not sure if I will get back or if I will get home exhausted and stressed.
Russell Bishop | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living
Of course you have multiple things to do. That's a good thing. In fact, if you didn't have multiple things to do you might be coming near the end of...
Dumb Little Man | Posted 04.22.2009 | Living
However motivated, fired-up and enthusiastic you are about your life and work, there are going to be times when you have to force yourself to do somet...
divinecaroline.com | Green Sherpa | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living