Each week I take about an hour to read other blogs on self improvement. There are some great blogs and websites on the topic, but this list of 5 articles are the best I found this week. Feel free to email me with your own recommendations of interesting articles for future “Recommended Readings”. Reasons to [...]

Okay, this is a personal issue for me. My office is becoming more and more cluttered each day. The problem is I don’t take time to clean my workspace because I’d rather be producing something. But there is the catch. It’s harder to be productive when I’m surrounded by a mess. More importantly, when I [...]

As regular readers know, I post my own life goals here on SevenActions as an example of goal setting and to keep myself on track. So, this goal is for the action of working. My personal goal for work (my day job) is to complete the redesign of our agency website by February 19, 2008. [...]

Most of us think of work as the time we spend earning money to enjoy the rest of our time. Or, as the bumper sticker with the seven dwarfs said, “I owe, I owe, so off to work I go!” And there’s no denying it, for most of us, work is a necessity in order [...]

For most of my life I have been a goal setter. I guess it’s related to my attraction to numbers, statistics, and basically measuring things. I started around age 14 selecting measurable targets for things I wanted to achieve in life. And doing so had a tremendous impact on who I have become. But life [...]