Productivity and Success Tips
"You're Making Me" is dedicated to Time Management, Motivation, and anything else that MAKES ME more productive, persuasive, happier, smarter, or just plain better.
Here’s the first edition of my revamped podcast. Instead of bringing one topic per episode like in the past, I’ll now be putting together a whole show. I’ll cover news, do a countdown, have a weekly challenge, and also get up on a soapbox some weeks for a two-minute rant. I’ll also be putting out [...]
My wife Oralia and I were out traveling last summer and decided to stop at a little gas station on the side of the highway. We stopped partly to fill up, and partly because there was an ice cream stand next door. OK Kevin, what’s the point? I walked inside to use the washroom and [...]
XMind 2012 has just been released, and it has some cool features. Most are small tweaks to the system that make an already good program even better, but I think it ranks high as some of the best mind map software out there. If you’re not familiar with XMind, you should consider checking it out. [...]
Right Click to download podcast If it’s worth having, it’s worth paying for You may remember that France gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a gift in 1884. What stands out is that France didn’t have a whole lot of extra money to spend at that point in time. That meant [...]
For a Pilot, missing an item on a checklist could mean the difference between life and death. They already know all the steps necessary to get their plane off the ground and return it safely, but by having a checklist, it ensures that everything that should be done, IS actually done, thereby raising the rate [...]
Direct link to video The video Change for a Dollar has been viewed almost 2 million times on YouTube…. and it’s a mostly silent video. It’s the little things you do each day that make you great The reason for me sharing it is because I like how the video aligns with the messages I [...]
I wanted to have a little fun for this post, so I decided to do a motivational rant using the Songify app on my iPhone. It’s a free app that lets you speak into your microphone and then it spits out an auto-tuned version of your voice. (auto-tuning = using software to change a voices [...]
People worry about starting out right. When you start out on a good note, it increases the chances of you moving in the right direction, but it’s not the only factor. It’s how you finish that matters I truly believe that one of the biggest factors in a person’s success is their ability to finish [...]
My shock at the Supermarket I was recently out shopping at a supermarket and saw something unbelievable. I watched as a man and a sobbing child walked by. The kid was probably around 18 months old and wasn’t screaming, but simply crying a little bit. This man stops at the end of one of the [...]
When most people start something new and exciting, they often jump in with both feel and take things to the extreme. It happens a lot with Time Management. Rigid schedules lead to ruin The problem is that when you try to rigidly schedule every single activity and every single minute of the day, there’s a [...]
Enter your email and stay on top of things,
