Summer Solstice for Business Owners
In case you haven’t noticed, keyboards and screens are not your friends. I mean that both literally and figuratively.
June 21 this year is the summer solstice (at least here in the northern hemisphere), which means it’s the longest day of sunlight in the entire year. When was the last time you celebrated the solstice?
Use It or Lose It
The first time I found out about the use-it-or-lose-it properties of the human brain came when I was discussing my upcoming LASIK appointment with my surgeon.
Who Is JJ And How Does She Support Her Clients?
As a productivity consultant, I work with business owners so they can get $hit done by working smarter.
But what does that MEAN?
I’m talking sustainable productivity.
Sharpen Your Critical Thinking Skills for 2026: Part 2
Not only does thinking critically help you be more effective in your business, so can thinking critically about effectiveness.
Are You a Robot?
I’m not talking about whether a program thinks you’re a bot for failing to recognize stoplights.
I’m asking how much of your life is on automatic pilot?
How often do you go from bed to emails to “social” feeds to work to emails to working out to “social” feeds to emails to bed?
Productivity On The Pale Blue Dot
“We are made of starstuff.” - Carl Sagan
When was the last time you looked up at the stars? Or the moon, if you’re living in an urban area where stars are in short supply.
Ultraprocessing Ruins Your Ability to Be Effective
What’s your poison – cakes, cookies, chips, candy…?
You probably eat healthy most of the time, making sure you get enough protein and so forth. (I hope.) But from time to time you indulge in your poison of choice. All things in moderation, etc.
What happens when you overload on your poison?
Envelopes For Your Mind
Do you believe that time is money?
That if you’re not making money, you’re wasting your time?
Want To Be More Effective In Your Business?
I’m very excited that my book is coming out on Kindle in a couple of weeks!
Flexibility in Your Business Framework
Have you ever been to the top of the Empire State Building in New York? (Or any other skyscraper?) When you go out to the observation deck, especially on a windy day, you’ll feel the platform sway a little bit.
That’s a feature, not a bug.
A Cuppa for Peak Performance
You may not be a big fan of drinking tea, and don’t worry, you don’t have to in order to work smarter!
Maintaining Your Best Productivity Tool
This tool seems very underappreciated, but learning to work with it and maintain it will give you a sustainable productivity boost that will also help prevent burnout.
Feed Your Head
As a business owner in the legal or financial industries, you know that knowledge (and working with your brain) is one of your superpowers. As the Chief Brain Hacker of my company, I’m also the chief knowledge worker.
You know you need to support your brain… but what exactly is “brain food”?
Fire Up Some Freedom of Time This 4th of July
It’s almost Independence Day (I know because my neighbors have been firing up the firecrackers for a couple weeks now) and it’s time to celebrate!
There are a lot of different ways to be independent.
So You Want to Be a Productivity Consultant
But what about the secret sauce? The terrible things no one will tell you about being a productivity consultant.
Darwin Day And Your Business Evolution
Why should business owners celebrate Darwin Day, which commemorates the birth of Charles Darwin?
Well, why not?
But seriously…
3 Powerful Ways for Business Owners To Be More Productive in 2024
Sometimes when I’m speaking on the topic of productivity I can see the audience thinking, “There’s no way I can do that!”
Most of the time, what they really mean is “I don’t want to do that”.
Brains and Productivity: What Business Owners Need to Know
The word productivity itself is overused, and can mean different things for different people. It covers both the work I do in helping business owners reclaim their time by working with their brains instead of against them.
Find Your Four Hours for Productivity
There are a few ways to improve productivity, but they don’t all have the same impact.
For Freethought Day, Unleash Your Brain and Boost Your Firm’s Productivity
All business owners are engaged in knowledge work. And if you have an accounting, legal, financial, marketing, or architecture firm, your business is also knowledge work. Which makes the most important tool in your toolbox – weapon in your arsenal – ingredient in your pantry… your brain.