If you can carve out five minutes every morning to organize your day, you’ll save yourself many, many more minutes.  I know you’re busy.  We’re all busy.  But we’re only talking about five minutes.  300 seconds! I’m not talking about anything elaborate, just sitting down and thinking about what you want to accomplish that day,…

I love real estate agents. I work with them every day. I am even married to one. You probably like real estate agents, too.  They’re your colleagues, your co-workers, your friends, and the people you spend most of your time with every day. But you should stop talking to them so much.  Why? Very simple:…

You ever come to the end of the day, exhausted in that satisfying way that reassures you that you’ve had a good, productive day?  And then when you review what you accomplished, you realize that you spent the whole day getting a whole lot of nothing done? I mean, you were AT work.  You were…

You ever go on a diet? I’ve been on lots and lots of them, and they all go kind of the same way. I wake up Monday morning, full of enthusiasm to start the new diet.  I have that all-important first meal of the day, something with lots of fiber and all that.  I eat…

All diets work, even the gimmicky ones. You want to spend the next six weeks eathing nothing but cabbage soup?  You’ll lose weight.  Nothing but carbs?  You’ll lose weight.  No carbs, just protein?  You’ll lose weight.  Grapefruit, nothing but luscious grapefruit?  You’ll lose weight.  And of course, if you actually do something smart like simply…

I used to live on the fourth floor of a walkup brownstone on the upper west side of Manhattan.  Lots of stairs. I hated walking up those stairs every day, and I particularly hated carrying heavy things up the stairs.  So when we bought stuff like furniture or groceries, we would usually get them delivered.…