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The Voice: Key to getting more of what you want done...in less time

I gave a talk yesterday at UC Berkeley on time management. What generated the most enthusiasm was the concept of The Voice.  
 
I explained that many of my most successful clients and those most contented with their life have a little voice ever whispering in their ear, asking four questions. I describe them in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Marty Nemko playling Let it Go from the movie Frozen

The Music of Your Life: A way to unearth your life's emotional nuggets.

It’s psychologically rewarding and just plain fun to reminisce about your life. Normally, we do it by revisiting signature accomplishments, for example, graduation, first job, marriage, kids.

A walk through the music of your life can often elicit less obvious nuggets. For each song or piece of music that was important in your life, you might write its emotional significance for you. 

To kick off your thinking, my PsychologyToday.com article today tells what I wrote about the music of my life.

Take That Job That Falls in Your Lap?! Why ""Follow your passion" is often bad advice

If there’s a motto that career counselors, celebrities, and pop psychologists would agree on, it’s “Follow your passion!”  Yet a case can be made for taking virtually whatever job drops in your lap and using it as a springboard to a better job and career. 

I make the case in my PsychologyToday.com article today. 

This I Believe: Six unpopular ideas for the life well-led

I hold many popular views but, by definition, you’re likely to have heard those before, perhaps ad nauseam. 

Perhaps the six unpopular beliefs I hold and describe in my PsychologyToday.com article today will thus be of greater value to you.

Time Management and Procrastination: An integrated approach

My PsychologyTodaty.com article today is for people whose time management is impeded by procrastination. It addresses both time management and procrastination.

What To Learn, Teach, or Research; A utilitarian approach

It's remarkable how irrationally we choose what to learn, teach, or research. We can be as simplistic as, “That seems interesting.” Or “My advisor is researching Indo-European linguistics so I'll study that.” Or “I fell into this job as a soda-flavoring taster so I might as well dig deeper.” 

We might more wisely choose what to learn, teach, or research based on just this single criterion: How likely will my focusing on this significantly improve my life and that of my sphere of influence?

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers a look at three diverse examples.

The Moment of Truth: The key to conquering procrastination

Countless articles, books, and lectures attempt to propose the cure for procrastination. Those efforts divide into two categories: tactics and emotion-centered approaches. 

Both may be over-complexifying the solution. I myself have been guilty of it. For example, just yesterday, I wrote an article offering lots of anti-procrastination tactics.  Earlier, I wrote an article focusing on the emotional.

But after a rewarding exchange with procrastination expert Tim Pychyl who had read the aforementioned tactics article, I decided to offer you a simpler approach. That's my PsychologyToday.com article today.

A Tougher But More Helpful Approach to Procrastination?

In ten days, I’ll be giving my fourth Public Lecture at UC Berkeley Extension. It will be on time management and procrastination.  

My PsychologyToday.com article today summarizes what I’m planning to say about the latter.

Mining Your Interiority

My PsychologyToday.com article today makes the case that more of our interior thoughts deserve voicing.