How To Recognize and Avoid Extending Sunk Costs

How To Recognize and Avoid Extending Sunk Costs

According to Wikipedia, sunk costs are "past costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered." Usually an economic term, it also applies to other areas of our lives. Failing to recognize them means we put time and energy into something simply because you already have. That is not necessarily wise.
Do You Fall For These Time Management Lies?

Do You Fall For These Time Management Lies?

Time management is the key to make sure that you don't fritter away a precious resource on meaningless activities - at least without meaning to. Yet many people fall for time management lies, much to their detriment. Do you fall for these time management lies?
Next Actions Done Right

Next Actions Done Right

Next actions are defined as "the very next physical action required to move the situation forward" according to Getting Things Done. But this all depends on your definition of "forward".
18 Stress Reducers, By Waking Hour

18 Stress Reducers, By Waking Hour

I look upon my methods for stress reducers as tools in a toolbox. This gives me a selection of things to choose from when I come across various stressful situations. I decided to classify those tools by the hours of the day, as they all have their place.
Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress

Boiling Water, Or Being Aware of Stress

There's an old wives' tale that if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water he will jump out, but if you put a frog in a pot of cool water and slowly raise it to boiling the frog will allow himself to be boiled to death.

The "temperature" of our lives is our stress level, and we react the same way.
Ramp Down Your Stress Level

Ramp Down Your Stress Level

We accumulate stress as we move through situations. Each additional stressor piles on to the original stress level and amplifies what we are already feeling. But there is a way to keep that from happening.