Tony Mayo

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Guidelines for Writing Your Goals

Tony Mayo

Above all, be sure your goals are describing specific, measurable results (SMRs). She changed it to “Going all day with energy and eagerness, caffeine-free.” Diet and exercise weren’t her goals, just how-tos. Goal Setting blog comments powered by Disqus « Emptyness–and filling it.

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You can’t manage time, so manage your priorities

Tony Mayo

I first observed it early in my consulting career, at Arthur Andersen & Co in New York, after a meeting with my manager and our client, the Vice President of a large energy company. The most valuable time management skill is recognizing the important tasks and ignoring the rest. After the client left, my manager [.].

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Teleseminar Report I

Tony Mayo

Perceived threats to the 5 Rs can be confused with actual existential dangers and push me into survival mode, a high-stress, low creativity way of being that drains away energy and joy. We applied these insights to recent challenges as diverse as sales presentations and helping our children with homework.

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Recording Meetings and Podcasts

Tony Mayo

radiate energy that can induce a current that becomes noise. radiate energy that can induce a current that becomes noise. My solution is to use professional equipment with laptop recording software. It is more money and trouble, but the quality is very high.

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3 Rs of Dispute Resolution

Tony Mayo

Most of the “bandwidth&# is filled with opinions, complaints, declarations of standards and expectations, personal attacks, and misdirected venting of energy. Turn on your TV any weekday: soap operas, talk shows, and news programs are filled with arguments.) You probably do all of these. No need to dread confrontation.

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