by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 18, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
What do you want out of life that you aren't getting now? When I present goal-setting workshops at conferences, I'm befuddled by the number of people who don't have any long-term goals. They live life day to day, with their goals extending only into the next week or...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 17, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Of all the lessons in the 100 Day Challenge, this is one of my favorites…and one of the most surprising. It's a rare thing in today's culture to promote ethics. But this lesson does it powerfully. It is jam-packed with profound insights. Over the past couple of...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 16, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
As I write this, I have an inbox filled to the top. It's not that I don't know it needs to be cleared. And it's not that I don't have a system in place to clear it. I'm a huge disciple of the Getting Things Done philosophy. My entire system maintenance list has been...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 15, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto studied patterns of wealth and income in the late 19th century. The Pareto Principle shows that “a minority of causes, inputs, or effort usually lead[s] to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.” Later known as...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jan 14, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
One of the first concepts I learned in business school was “opportunity cost.” Opportunity Cost = The cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action. In other words, the opportunity cost of the dollar I spend on a candy bar...
