How to Achieve Your Goals

5 Awesome Times to Love “No”

I was chatting with a lawyer friend of mine (“Dewey”) the other day about a client (“Peter”) he’s been trying to woo for two years. For two years, Dewey has been buying lunches, dinners, and otherwise fawning over Peter, the owner of a private, midsized company. Peter finally asked Dewey to do a tidbit of…

Beyond To-Do: Creating a When-To List

Almost all of us have a to-do list in some fashion or other. Some of us keep an organized list on our computers, while others use an app on our phones. Some of us have things scribbled here and there on sticky notes so we don’t forgot important tasks. [weaver_widget_area id=’donation’] As Peter Bregman points…

How to Break Up with a Friend

[weaver_youtube https://youtu.be/jbmW4LZ9zbM sd=0 percent=50 ratio=.5625 center=1 rel=0 https=0 privacy=0] Ending any relationship, whether business, romantic, or platonic, is never very comfortable. Depending on the nature of the friendship, sometimes you can just let it fade away (a choice you don’t have in the workplace or romantically!). Sometimes, though, closure is best, and you’ll need to…

How to be a Good Friend

[weaver_youtube https://youtu.be/10YDFMPwDDo sd=0 percent=50 ratio=.5625 center=1 rel=0 https=0 privacy=0] How to be good friend might seem painfully obvious to everyone reading this, but for me, it was something I had to learn. I didn’t have good role models for being a friend in my household as a child; my parents didn’t socialize much either at…