Kent Blumberg

Invest in all areas of your life for enhanced effectiveness

I work with business owners and entrepreneurs, helping them achieve their business goals.  Inevitably, that means we work on other areas of life, too.  You see, we bring all of ourselves to our work.  If we are dissatisfied with any other area of life, it will inevitably impact our ability to meet our business goals.

The Wheel of Life (see the picture to the left) is a great tool for exploring our level of satisfaction with eight areas of life and deciding where to increase our investment of time, energy and money.

Here's how you can use the wheel in your life.

Change your response to events in order to increase your personal effectiveness

In their book, Play to Win!, Revised Edition: Choosing Growth Over Fear in Work and Life, Larry and Hersch Wilson offer a simple formula for changing how we respond to events around us:  Stop-Challenge-Choose.  Here's how to use it to reduce your stress and improve your results.

Take back your time - "Cut To The Chase"

"You know what really drives me nuts?  Then people come into my office for a five-minute conversation and, an hour later, they're still there!  Why can't they cut to the chase?"

So begins Stuart Levine's great little book of ideas about time, Cut to the Chase: and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time (Currency Doubleday, 2006, 207 pages).  Written for all of us - anyone who realizes that time is the essence of life, that time is the only non-renewable resource, and that time deserves careful attention- Levine's book contains 100 ideas to help you take back your time.

Book Review: "My Answer is No"

Do you ever have trouble saying no?  I've written here before about how to say no, but sometimes fear gets in the way of following the process I suggested. That's where Nanette Gartrell's new book, My Answer is No . . . If That's Okay with You: How Women Can Say No and (Still) Feel Good About It comes in handy.

MEN:  Keep reading!  In spite of the sub-title, this book will also help you say no.  And if you are powerful enough not to ever have trouble saying no, this book will help you make it easier for those around you to disagree with you constructively.  That's probably good for you and good for them.  So read on!