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I had been driving my truck for eight years, and it was a great truck. Never really needed any work and never broke down. I drive about 22,000 miles a year and it never let me down. We were going into winter though and I knew I was going to need to put new brakes and tires on it but I wasn't sure I wanted to invest the money in it so I started to think about the potential of a new car. I saw something that I liked and then suddenly, I started seeing them all over. Everyw

I could hear her yelling from the middle of the backyard. I was outside playing with a friend when my mother called my name to educate me on my insubordination from at least a hundred feet away. Her voice traveled through walls and around trees. Annoyed, I immediately shot back, "What!?!?" Before I could even finish my childish comeback, my friend snapped, "You didn't put the cheese puffs bag away." Sure enough, my mom whipped the back door open and ordered me inside to put t

I was recently thinking about creating a time management class for people and trying to outline the structure of it. I started to think of useful "action" items that would be great to discuss and teach. The more I wrote these down and thought about them I realized they were more for productivity than time management. The two are tied together at the hip, but are also different and we are going to explore both of them. Time management is the planning of the most important

One could argue that the most valuable resource on this planet is something you can never acquire more of, and you can never get back.  Time.  The great Warren Buffet once taught Bill Gates a lesson about time management and described it last year at an event where they both spoke. Buffet said, “It’s the only thing you can’t buy.  I mean, I can buy anything I want basically, but I can’t buy time.”  I know the financial situation Warren Buffett or Bill Gates are in is not rela

After months of thinking something was up, she finally confirmed my suspicions. She was looking for a new job. We had worked well together for the past four years but she wanted a job at a company that was a better fit for her. I was disappointed but I knew it was the right move for her to accomplish her goals. As I reflected on this, I thought a lot about the good and bad from the past four years and what I would be looking for as a replacement. Later that week, I was ta