“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.”
- Alan Alda
If you’ve read Chicken Soup for the Soul, you may remember one of the poems in the book about the “cookie thief.” I heard it again not too […]
Some Achieve Planner users have asked if there is a way to focus in on a particular branch in the Outline, for example, to view all the Goals, Projects, and Tasks under the Work result area and filter out everything else.
The answer is the “Zooming” feature in Achieve Planner that is equivalent to the “hoist” […]
by John Fike
“The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.”
- Bennett Cerf
Stress and depression have become critical concerns in the modern workplace. Few people in the modern world don’t experience daily stress from their job or responsibilities. As a result, illness, disease and mental health disorders are skyrocketing.
Companies […]
In the February 2007 edition of The Blue Chip Investor, Steven Check from Check Capital writes
“Dalbar, Inc., is famous for examining how individual investor behavior impacts returns. A recent Dalbar study stated that equity mutual funds, over the 20-year period ending 2005, earned annualized returns of 11.0%. However, its findings revealed that mutual-fund investors only […]
Professor Robert Sutton has a new book called “The No Asshole Rule” in which he argues that assholes are detrimental to the businesses that employ them because they poison the work environment, decrease productivity, and cause good people to quit.
According to Sutton, these people are characterized by two main qualities:
They deliberately annoy people and go […]
Many users have asked me whether it’s possible to create project templates in the Achieve Planner time management software (AP).
While AP doesn’t have true project templates yet, it’s relatively easy to get the same results using the existing copy drag & drop functionality.
If you have certain project types that have the same set of common […]
How to connect your daily actions to your mission, vision, and goals!
