It’s a boring afternoon. You’re tired after class, and all you want to do is curl up with Netflix and a bowl of cereal. But you really should study, and you know it. It’s just that you just don’t feel like it at all. Maybe you have a project that’s due soon, a paper to write, or a test coming up.…
By Alp Mimaroglu You may know her as a multi-millionaire investor on ABC’s Shark Tank, but New York real estate mogul Barbara Corcoran didn’t become one of the highest-paid female investors in the world overnight. Like many other entrepreneurs, she climbed her way to the top from nothing. Barbara Corcoran grew up poor. Despite her external circumstances, however, she maintained a strong imagination and showed keen business acumen…
How To Become Your Most Productive Self By: Martha Sorren Motivating yourself to be productive isn’t always easy. Some days, inertia takes over and the last thing you want to do is conquer your to-do list. Maybe you have a hard time motivating yourself to do chores around the house or exercise or start that big project for work. But whatever tasks you struggle…
One of the most frustrating aspects of any work environment is working with someone who doesn’t appear to be committed to the work or the company. It’s disheartening when you’re toiling away on a project and your cubicle mate is focused on personal calls or social media — or putting forth minimal effort just to get the work done. Even…
Summertime is a welcome relief after a snowy winter and rainy spring. If you’re stuck in the office during this beautiful time of year, you might find yourself daydreaming more and working less. It doesn’t help that summer is usually the slowest time of the year for most businesses, so you might feel like you don’t have enough work to…
Your weekends are precious — you’ll want to make the most of them. You’ve probably worked all week with one target in mind — getting to the weekend and then doing something useful with it! Yet often when you actually reach the weekend, it tends to fizzle out and not quite live up to your expectations. These tips should help…
Students who are thrilled to do their homework every single day are rare… if there are any. Everyone needs a motivational push now and then, and you will be surprised what inspiration can do with your opinion about “pointless” homework assignments. Even if you don’t see the point in doing homework, you still see a point in getting good grades,…
One of the ways to make a change in your life is to use your time wisely. We can’t get more time but we can use the time we have to its maximum. Effectively using time during your lunch break is one way to be more productive. Here are 10 things to do during your lunch break. 1. Work toward…
A complete irony that just as the words ‘women power’ are mentioned in the room, the power goes off. It’s a cold winter’s day in Johannesburg and the Greenside suburb that we are in for this interview is encountering unscheduled load-shedding. The word power was in describing Phuti Mahanyele’s and Stacey Brewer’s ascent to corporate celebrity. It was only when…
As a part of her motivational series “Finding Brave to Build Your Happiest Life and Career,” Kathy Caprino writes about to put an end to the negativity that we allow to pervade our everyday life. Here is her list of top things one should stop saying to themelselves for more success and happiness. I built an 18-year corporate marketing career that…
