Posts by Helene Segura, M.A. Ed., CPO®
How to Prevent Holiday Stress – 2019
Since I receive a lot of great feedback every year when I repost this blog on how to prevent holiday stress, I thought I would make it an annual tradition to share this letter that I wrote to myself almost eight years ago. We’ve all seen Christmas decorations for sale in stores since September (maybe…
Read MoreGet It All Done – How to Cope with Despising Daily To Do Lists
While all of my clients want to learn how to get it all done, many of them have lamented about to-do lists: “I hate them! They make me feel trapped.” or “They are never-ending!!” There are different components to creating a to-do list system: deciding what goes on there, implementing a format that allows you…
Read MoreHow Does Mercury in Retrograde Affect Your Productivity?
Why would the woo-woo astrological term Mercury in Retrograde be of any interest to a very concrete sequential, scientifically-leaning, analytical brain like mine? It goes like this. I first heard the term ten years ago when I was helping a client unpack in her new home. She was lamenting about all of the mishaps that…
Read MoreProductivity Recharge – Top 10 Things to Do in New York City
When my husband and I decided to take a 5-day vacation in New York City, we were excited about our first stay in The Big Apple. But then we got overwhelmed with all of the choices to make about what to do because there is everything to do in The City That Never Sleeps. To help…
Read MoreOvercoming Perfectionism – How to Slash Lost Time
The thought of overcoming perfectionism might seem like an overwhelming goal, but if you break it down into smaller bitesize pieces, you can work on it one small step at a time. If you have any perfectionist tendencies, you might be aware that you lose time when you spend extra hours re-doing and improving and…
Read MoreHow to Improve Productivity – Participate in October Holidays
It’s quite common to hear people say that they want to learn how to improve their productivity or get better with their time management. That’s terrific! But those are pretty broad goals. What can you do to get started? If you’re not sure what area to begin with or focus on, consider using these October…
Read MoreDaily To Do Lists – The Perfect Format (Part 2)
There are different components in creating daily to do lists: implementing a format that allows you to be successful, deciding what goes on there, using a system that you don’t detest, and creating a list you can actually complete. In last week’s post, we browsed five different tools for managing your daily to do lists:…
Read MoreDaily To Do Lists – The Perfect Format
One of the questions I’m asked most often by my clients and seminar audiences is: “What is the best to do list or task system to use for my daily to do lists?” There are different components to creating a to-do list system: implementing a format that allows you to be successful, deciding what goes…
Read MorePractical Travel Guide – Visiting Yankee Stadium for the First Time
My husband has never cared for baseball. I, on the other hand, grew up as a Los Angeles Dodgers fan. My brother and I knew every player, their jersey number and their order in the batting line up. But I stopped following baseball after the Major League Baseball strike in 1994. You might, therefore, find…
Read MoreChange Management Process: 6 Lessons to Get Through It
Sometimes you can get thrown into a change management process when you least expect it. Last month, my e-newsletter host told me that they’re changing platforms, and I need to migrate to their new platform everything in my account that I’ve built up in the five years I’ve been using their services. WHAT?! They had…
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