Tag Archives: projects

Laziness and Procrastination

While I realize that procrastination is not another term for laziness, I’ve also seen how procrastination can engender laziness. Procrastination can start out as a fear of failure or a dozen other root causes, but after a while, you can get so accustomed to not pushing yourself to do anything difficult, that you stop trying. It’s the part about giving up and giving in that seems to have such a damaging effect on one’s life and distorts one’s perception of …

Out With the Old; In With the New

There are just so many things you can do in the course of a day and, no matter how industrious you are, and no matter how much energy you have, you still can’t squeeze twenty-seven hours into a twenty-four hour day. In the old days, I used to feel guilty if I didn’t have time to do everything that needed to be done or that I wanted to do. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that guilt is a wasted …

That Letdown Feeling

I keep hearing about high school and college students sinking into depression after they graduate. They go from studying feverishly for exams (at least they used to study feverishly for exams) to having nothing to take its place. If they graduate in June, they often have a whole summer of feeling disenfranchised, and many of them become too depressed to work up enough enthusiasm to do anything constructive. In retrospect, I was probably lucky that my graduations were all midyear …

When to Hold and When to Fold

One of the most difficult things to do is knowing when to hold and when to fold; knowing when to leave a person or a situation. Ask any inveterate gambler if he is able to walk away from a losing streak, especially if he has won a few hands that evening and then he starts to lose. There’s a reason that the house always wins. Casinos don’t make their money from people who know when to stop gambling. They make …

Less is More

From time to time I would hear someone say that less is more and it never made sense to me because I was always so busy multitasking, going from one project to another. I even used to read 35 books at the same time, alternating them according to what I was in the mood to read and never losing the drift of any of the stories. It seemed as though there were never enough hours in the day to get …

Unlimited Time Off

Wherever I look, I see articles written by head honchos and entrepreneurs alike, telling everyone that they have found that by giving their employees unlimited vacation days, sick days, personal days, and just about any other kind of day, generates more productivity from their employees. Many of them tell how they have noticed that when the stress is removed from their job, their employees produce more and create a more harmonious environment. By giving their employees more freedom and letting …

Connie H. Deutsch