Upgrade your agenda with this cornucopia of advanced options, shortcuts, and features for Google Calendar. If there’s one digital tool I rely on as much as Gmail , it’s Google Calendar. Read Full Story

Upgrade your agenda with this cornucopia of advanced options, shortcuts, and features for Google Calendar. If there’s one digital tool I rely on as much as Gmail , it’s Google Calendar. Read Full Story

Do you feel stuck in a rut? Are you a creature of habit? Here’s how to get better at trying new things. What does it mean to be adventurous? It means a willingness to take on new challenges and to take on some risk. Both the newness and the risk matter when thinking about whether and how you could learn to be more adventurous. Read Full Story

Getting a sense of your interviewer’s mindset is critical, but it can be tricky when you’re doing a virtual interview. When you head into any job interview, you want to make a good impression. In the past, you could pick up on a lot of information in the physical environment where the interview was taking place, as well as the body language of the interviewer. But during the pandemic, social distancing has made it harder to use this information, and so it becomes even more valuable to have a sense of your interviewer’s mindset before you get to the interview. Here are four things to focus on: Read Full Story

Debt collectors say they have too much “compassion and empathy for consumers” to take advantage of them during the coronavirus pandemic. Following reports last week that the IRS stimulus checks meant to help taxpayers stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic could legally be seized by banks, debt collectors want you to know that they would never, ever do such a thing. Read Full Story

Procrastinators, we know what you’ll be doing this weekend: Here are seven things you need to know about this year’s unusual Tax Day. Procrastinators, we know what you’ll be doing this weekend: Your taxes. Read Full Story

It will likely require shifting your mindset in a few key ways. A to-do list can be a helpful tool for running your day, but it can also be a place where tasks go to linger and die. If you end the day with things undone or if you keep carrying tasks forward to the next day or week, you need a to-do list makeover—a reality check on how you spend your time, as well as your expectations. Read Full Story

Get your mind right.

If you have no place to authentically enter the conversation or connect with that cultural moment, don't do it. Sitting on the sidelines for that moment could be the best decision you could make in the new year.

Administrative tasks, such as making a dentist appointment or paying your bills, are the worst. But if you don’t do these things regularly, they pile up. Sometimes you feel like you can’t manage your life because of huge, challenging projects you need to get done. But in my experience as a time management coach, people can just as easily feel like a failure because of the little things: the doctors’ appointments never made, the clothes heaps on the floor, or the constant orange glow of the change oil light on their dashboard. Read Full Story