Meetings aren’t easy to schedule if you have many participants, widely separated. But there’s an easy way to do it, if you reverse your thinking.

Getting what you want requires aligning three areas of your brain: behaviors, beliefs, and identity. The most powerful is Identity, who you think you are. Here's how to make it ultra-powerful

When you're on vacation, it's easy to change habits. Why is it so hard in daily life? Here's how to take the changes from vacation and establish them in your day-to-day life.

In the era of social networks, it's not clear how to manage your address book. Until now. This episode details tips for maintaining your address book even though we're living in a world of far, far too much communication.

A prioritization matrix courtesy of the late Stephen Covey can help you figure out your life's priorities so you don't waste time on things that don't matter.

When you're in a job that demands marathons of meetings, here's how to make sure you stay on the top of your game as you dive into the meeting madness.

If you aren't making progress as quickly as you'd like, you may be the victim of the nefarious Premature How. The very path you've chosen towards your goal may have become what's holding you back. Get-It-Done Guy explores how to cope when our solution is our biggest problem, our assets are our greatest liabilities, and our planning is our biggest roadblock. And, of course, Zombies.

Email can be explosive, especially when you use it to carry on an emotional discussion. If you learn to read email carefully, however, you can make sure that even if other people are going ballistic, you can deal sanely and rationally with the incoming email. Then everyone will think you're a hero, you'll be promoted, and life will be perfect.

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Don't be overwhelmed by a busy schedule; sort your activities so your brain can deal with clarity.