Thoughts, devotions, and more from Jeffrey K. Ross, author of "Next Step Devotions"
Thanks to a holiday week with far fewer interruptions and meetings than normal, I got completely caught up in my email inbox at work and home today. What a wonderful, rare moment when I realized that I had no emails waiting on me in either place! Aaaahhhhhhh......... the bliss! Of course, that just meant that …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #186: Find What Works For You and Run With It
This week I tried something new in my scheduling at work. I blocked out all morning hours on my calendar between 7:30 and noon to work on major, newer initiatives. There is always a much longer list of tasks to get done than can be done, but the issue that was starting to bother me …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #146: Take Control of Your Schedule
For the last few years I have occasionally taught a webinar on the contents of the book Bit Literacy by Mark Hurst. It's an excellent book filled with good advice on how to gain control over the huge amount of information that comes to you and from you daily. One of the critical ideas from the …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #102: Admit When You Take On Too Much and Do Something About It
It's easy to get behind. A little unexpected event here... another there... wanting to spend some extra time with family... feeling the need to rest a bit... taking on something else unexpectedly... and suddenly you look up and you're three days behind writing blog posts. Oops. Guilty as charged. Why does that happen? Do you …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #93: It’s Easy to Get Behind, But You Can Recover
Have you ever felt overwhelmed at the amount of work ahead of you? It's a discouraging feeling. You have a hard time being motivated or even knowing where to begin. A real danger for some when faced with this is that they procrastinate and make the problem even worse by eventually backing themselves into a …
Continue reading Leap Year Lesson #64: Chunk It and Reward Yourself
