Effective self-motivation is one of the main things that distinguishes high-achieving professionals from everyone else. So how can you keep pushing onward, even when you don’t feel like it? Every choice has a price, but when we are motivated, it is easier to bear the inconvenience of action than the pain of remaining the same. …
Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, and Sean Covey have written a book, The 4 Disciplines of Execution. It contains principles that will help you and your team successfully enact change. The objective of this process is to teach leaders how to help their teams execute on their highest priorities in the midst of the day-to-day whirlwind. …
In his book, What Matters Most, Hyrum W. Smith explains why so many people feel something is missing from their lives: conflicts between actions and personal values. Like many people, you may not have heard of a Belief Window before, but it affects many of the decisions you make every day and how you behave …
In the book, The 5 Choices, the authors discuss how to combat society’s addiction to urgency. The idea of urgency addiction is that we enjoy the revved-up feeling of doing things and checking them off, so we start subconsciously looking for things to check off, even if they don’t matter. We might even start to …
At Franklin Planner, we strive to help our customers achieve their goals and live the life they truly desire. To help achieve this, we’ve decided to allocate this month as “Optimized October”. To optimize something means to make something as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible. In order to optimize our lives, we have …
