Posts by Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO®
Time Management and The Luck of the Irish
With St. Patrick’s Day landing on a Friday, there will most likely be a few more St. Paddy’s celebrations than usual. You’ll also probably here an often-uttered phrase: the luck of the Irish The word “luck” is sometimes used to describe how a person lands a successful job or manages difficult situations with finesse…
Read MoreImprove Your Productivity Through Financial Planning
You might be asking yourself, “What does financial planning have to do with productivity?” Great question! The answer is: More than you realize! If you look at surveys and studies about sources of stress for individuals or couples or families, at the top of the list almost every time is MONEY. …
Read MoreHow to Stop Phone Addiction – 4 Tips
Last week, we discussed how to stop phone addiction – specifically, the emotional and mental aspects of phone addiction as well as what questions to ask yourself in order to help you assess your current situation. This time, we’ll examine four tips you can implement to begin curbing your addiction. Remove Temptation If…
Read MoreHow to Stop Phone Addiction – Face the Facts
If you’ve begun to read this article about how to stop phone addiction, it might be because your significant other spends more time looking at the screen than you, or perhaps you haven’t seen your teenager’s eyes in a week, or maybe you realize that your phone controls you. Today, we’re going to focus…
Read MoreAI and Time Management – Is it here?
Has the type of AI that can help us with time management arrived yet? A lot of clients and workshop participants ask me what online platform or software they can purchase that will schedule their days for them, shift and reprioritize as needs change, and make sure they finish everything they’re supposed to. …
Read MoreWhat do groundhogs, candles and patterns have in common with time management?
In one of the workshops that I present on my foundational framework for time management, I discuss the importance of patterns. Quite often we see or hear or experience the same things over and over and over again, yet we don’t do anything to change it or possibly even prevent it. Why is…
Read MoreHow to Be Successful with Lunar New Year Resolutions
Happy Lunar New Year! Lunar New Year’s Eve was celebrated on January 21st this year to ring in the Year of the Rabbit (or Year of the Cat in Vietnam). The celebration continues for 16 days. Whether you celebrate Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year or Gregorian New Year (many countries’ traditional January 1 kick…
Read MoreBusiness Lessons Learned from Southwest Airlines Holiday Meltdown
Last week I shared with you the travel lessons learned from the Southwest Airlines holiday debacle. Today, I’ll share with you some basic business lessons learned from the Southwest Airlines holiday meltdown. Southwest Airlines encountered a boatload of problems which were going to take time to mediate. They dug themselves an even deeper…
Read MoreTravel Lessons Learned from Southwest Airlines Holiday Debacle
Unless you cut yourself off from society for the last two weeks of 2022 and first week of 2023, you’ve already heard plenty about the Southwest Airlines meltdown over the 2022 holidays. One million people were affected by their delays and cancellations. My husband and I were two of them. We were able to…
Read MoreHow to Achieve Your Goals
Whether you call them goals, objectives, missions or New Year’s Resolutions, they all describe the same thing: accomplishing an achievement you’ve identified and seek. Or, as Oxford puts it: “the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result” To make your vision a reality, here are four basic principles…
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