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Four New Authors On New Years Resolutions

Karen Leland — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:46:38 +0000

I’m sorry, lo siento, prastee meenya pozhalosta, and mea culpa. Please don’t hate me, but I had to do it. I know you are probably sick of the subject, but no self-respecting time management/productivity expert could get away with not writing about New Year’s resolutions on the verge of not only a New Year, but a new decade.

Oh, and not to put any pressure on you, but, according to a 2008 research study done by Steve Shapiro and the Opinion Corporation of Princeton, NJ, 45 percent of Americans usually set New Year’s Resolutions and 17 percent infrequently set them. Only 38 percent absolutely never set resolutions.

So if you’re on the fence about whether you’re going to incarnate your intention to lose weight, exercise more, write your book, build up your web business or expand your operations overseas, I’ve rounded up a few very smart authors of new books to help. Here’s what they had to say about New Year’s resolutions, and all that they entail: To read the rest of this article see my column at Web Worker Daily

I’m Downsizing to Rightsize

Karen Leland — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:48:29 +0000

At latest count I’ve sold off 10 pieces of furniture; donated over 200 books, assorted dishware and clothing for Goodwill; thrown out a small dumpsters worth of garbage and cut my candle collection in half. All this and I still have many days worth of sorting and clutter clearing to go before the big day next week when we move.

My husband and are facing a downsizing. We sold the house we’ve owned for the past 12 years and are moving to a rental. Were we forced to sell our house in a fit of foreclosure? No. But like many of our fellow citizens we were swept up in the irrational enthusiasm of leveraged real estate investments and a mortgage that looked liked it was too good to be true – and it was. Read the rest of this article on my Huffington Post blog

Give Your Brain A Lunch Break

Karen Leland — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:17:50 +0000

The past few months, it seems I’ve spent countless lunch hours hovering over my desk while shoving food from the deli next door down my throat. Between telephone interviews, Twitter postings and tough economic times, I often don’t make the effort to do more than choke down a salad or sandwich and call it lunch. In between forkfuls of romaine, my mind wanders to the good old days when I leisurely ate steamed dumplings from the dim sum restaurant down the street, or pomme frites from the French-style sidewalk café overlooking the bay. All this midday-meal mayhem has left me longingly wondering, “What has happened to the lunch hour?”

According to one new study from DiGiorno, 45 percent of the country’s workers say they’re taking shorter and/or fewer lunch breaks than they did a year ago. More than a third say they pass on their lunch break, thanks to an increasing workload.

Click here to read the rest of this article on my Productivity Superstar blog on Web Worker Daily.