I’ve always wondered why in every aspect of life does it take an enormous amount of time to prepare for a goal or an event. Why does a thirty minute talk take more than eight hours to construct? Or why does it take more than four hours to write a blog post which will be digested…
A task list is paramount to our productivity. We must treat it as daily guide in a world where a phone signal and wi-fi connection mean that almost anyone can start a conversation with us whether we are busy or unconscious. A task list, when used effectively, can reveal the number of battles we have…
You know that feeling – an overwhelming sense that your workload has suddenly pushed you into a place of overload. It’s when you have so much to do and a twelve hour day brings even more challenges for you to partake in, compounding your list of to do’s, as well as your blood pressure. Drowning in…
Setting goals is the easy part. It’s when we review and monitor them that we reassess whether they are actually worth pursuing. This is where we need to pour a gigantic amount of effort and skill into. You see, we can set goals for many reasons. Those reasons should provide a definite motivation, they should have attached to them…
I finally graduated. Within the next two months I was presented with what looked like an incredible job opportunity at an assessment centre in the Marriott hotel. Four weeks later, once I had landed the job, I was swished off for two days of training with overnight stays at the Premier Inn. My incredible opportunity…
Each book has a set of answers contained inside. In fact, our most common problems can be explained quite simply in the text printed on each page. So why don’t we read more? Well, for some us reading an entire book has the equivalent entertainment value as waiting in the doctors surgery while being coughed…
Let us move away from our hateful relationship with time, watching the clock scornfully as if it has the ulterior motive to see our downfall. We constantly rush around to get as much completed as quickly as possible, as if time were our arch enemy, chasing us with a handgun. Instead, we must change our…
Life is a series of plans which have been created and then executed. Whether we, our parents, employers and even total strangers have made plans for us, we are living out that blueprint and dealing with the associated consequences. The idea of planning is to prepare ourselves for a life that we wish to create.…
Your talent is an extra dose of ability in a given area of your life. When you use it, it feels like a custom made suit, perfect for your body shape. It’s the potential which others notice in you and they comment in admiration. Your talent, however, is only the foundation from which to build something…
You have an obsession when an idea takes over your thoughts and decides not to budge from your conscience. There are times, however, that this idea will willingly step back and allow other thoughts to move to the forefront of your mind. But almost predictably this obsessive idea will bully its way back to the front. Now…
Our actions become habits once they have been repeated regularly. To save unnecessary thinking space, our brain performs these repeated activities automatically. So now, we suddenly become Robocop with the habit embedded into our code, except we are also the programmer who put it there to begin with. Now according to scientific research, our habits…
Life is hectic. The older I get, the more I’ve come to expect life to be busy and to get even busier. Both my work and personal responsibilities increase the kinds of activities I am engaged in, add to that any goals and ambitions that I am pursuing, sprinkle it with unexpected challenges and suddenly the 13-15 hours of my…
I actually don’t believe in common sense. I don’t believe that the ability to make judgements are simply innate. I do believe we are trained and taught how to think and perceive and that in turn forms our judgement. So although I say ‘common sense,’ I am really emphasising the need to teach ourselves these…
At the age of 20 I made up in my mind to become a millionaire by the time I turned 30. I made this decision shortly after I had watched a documentary with 5 millionaires from the UK explaining how they had accumulated their fortunes. I wanted to be one of them and gave myself…
No. I don’t mean literally eating a frog, although it’s a nutritious delicacy in some parts of the world. And neither is it a code name for some type of hallucinogen. The term ‘eating a frog’ refers to the act of completing the most undesirable and difficult task of the day, first thing in the…
Diana Quartey 