Mastering the Art of Planning: There’s an old saying that goes something like this: In order to master your life, you must master your week. In order to master your week, you must first master your day. It sounds a bit like something Yoda would say, I’ll give you that, but these are words to live by. If you’re going to put effort into the process of capturing and organizing all of those tasks, then this final step is where...

Advice for Small Business Entrepreneurs: I think the most important thing about running a company is to remember all the time what a company is. A company is simply a group of people. As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, and you have to be a great motivator. You have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers. If you water flowers, they flourish....

Best Tips to Organize Your Tasks: Capturing is half the battle. The rest of the fight takes place in the way you organize your tasks. Writing down the things that you need to remember on index cards will only get you so far, I’m sorry to say. If we all stopped there, we would simply have piles of index cards all over our desks and kitchen counters. If the goal of capturing things is to act on them so that...