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Email is the curse of the modern worker. Some basic math reveals just how big the problem is. The average office-dwelling professional receives a hundred messages per day. At just two minutes per email, that adds up to three hours and twenty minutes per day. If an average workday is nine to five minus an hour for lunch, then email eats up nearly half the day.

According to researchers, knowing yourself better results in “stronger relationships, a clearer sense of purpose, and greater well-being, self-acceptance, and happiness.”

These benefits can help you in almost every area of life. They’ll make you a better manager, employee, colleague, parent, spouse, and friend.

Trying to build good habits can often backfire. Here’s why it’s important to know how habits are formed and when it’s better to stick with a routine instead.

Building habits to change behavior the right way can be a wonderful tool to improve your life. But false notions about what habits are and what they can do can backfire.

Anyone who’s spent time in another culture will be aware that the norms and assumptions around conducting meetings are a minefield. But while you can easily accept that in theory, you may have to blow yourself up to really get the point.

Although Erin has researched cultural differences for many years, it is only recently that she has come to see how her American obsession with punctuality and clockwatching can sometimes lead her astray. The truth is, time may be of prime importance in some cultures, but in others it is firmly subordinated to the needs of the moment.

Everyone knows that a little confrontation from time to time is constructive, right? And the classic business literature confirms it. Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team, for example, discusses at length how to achieve the right amount of confrontation for ultimate team effectiveness — and concludes that fear of conflict is one of the five major barriers to success.

Calling all the Quiet Leaders of the world. Believe in yourself, step out and own your strengths. The world needs you more than ever.

If Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Marissa Mayer, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Buffet, Mahatma Gandhi, Hillary Clinton, Michael Jordan, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and Nelson Mandela can thrive as introverts, then so can you!

For many Quiet Leaders, small-talk is one of our biggest nightmares.

However, with a couple of small tweaks in approach we can become masters at this game. As introverts, many of us already have a superpower at our disposal. The art of asking questions…

Like everyone else, you are a product of many things. Your personality, culture, upbringing, experiences, strengths, values, environment all shape who you are. By owning the positive aspects you can fashion an authentic and powerful identity.

Some people demonstrate bitterness towards success – “she gets all the luck”

Some people seem to think luck falls from the sky – “he’s always in the right place at the right time”

Could a more positive frame be that there is no such thing as luck at all?

Each day, life delivers a blank canvas for us to craft our masterpiece.

Our life is the sum of our days. Decide wisely how to spend it and craft a well lived life…

Imagine being able to develop your own superpower. A secret weapon that has transformative powers for; the quality of your relationships, your work performance, creating better habits, lowering your anxiety levels and increasing overall life satisfaction and happiness.

Sound worthwhile?