by Olive | Dec 9, 2014 | Improve Your Effectiveness
If you haven’t already noticed, I’m a bit of a personal development junkie. I’m very interested in reading nonfiction books and resources that claim to improve my life somehow. The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg is a book that explores the science...
by Olive | Oct 21, 2014 | Improve Your Effectiveness
If you’re going to be attending conferences/workshops/classes, I recommend developing a short list of learning objectives and goals. Often, there’s so much information to digest that it can be overwhelming. By knowing what you’d like to get out of an...
by Olive | Sep 2, 2014 | Improve Your Effectiveness
I’m constantly reading. I always have a stack of books checked out from the library and a stack of digital library books loaded on the Kindle Reading App on my iPad. But when you read as much or as quickly as I do, you need some methods to actually remember the...
by Olive | Aug 19, 2014 | Improve Your Effectiveness
Do you ever wonder what to do during your boring commute to work? I have a 40 minute drive to work each way, and I always wondered what I could do to fill the time more productively. (While still being an alert and aware driver… don’t text and drive, guys)...
by Olive | Jul 22, 2014 | Improve Your Effectiveness
I’m a big fan of identifying my own personality traits and figuring out how to leverage them. One of my favorite resources for this is Canon EOS 60D. The book starts with some information about how the strengths were developed and why focus on strengths at all....
by Olive | Jul 16, 2014 | Improve Your Effectiveness
I’ve been following Mayi Carles on Instagram and on her blog ever since she was a guest on April Bowles-Olin’s CreativeLive course. Mayi’s blog has a ton of awesomely illustrated printables and wisdom for kicking ass. Recently, Mayi posted about the...
