Archive for 'Time Management'
You’re Not That Special…Or Are You?
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
This week, there is a viral YouTube video circulating the country featuring High School English teacher David McCullough Jr. giving the commencement address at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts. In it, he flaunts the conventional graduation speech that wishes students well, instead delivering a diatribe about the way they’ve been made to think of themselves. [...]
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5 Great Ways to Start Your Day
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
This past Thursday I volunteered to speak to students at Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, MD for their career day. Jeff Baker, the Career Academics Coordinator there does a phenomenal job at rounding up speakers in a wide variety of careers so the students can get a real-world perspective on different paths. My presentation [...]
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Showing Up With A Purpose
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
I’m sitting in the Orlando Airport waiting on my flight to Greenville, SC. This is the second time in a month I’ve been here, both times to teach workshops for HR professionals in the VA. I must admit that when taking this gig, I fully expected attendees to show up (if they showed up at [...]
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Time Management is a Fallacy
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
A couple of months ago, I was approached by a company to write a time management course which I would then deliver at a conference for HR reps with the Veterans Administration. When I asked them what the objectives were for the course (kind of important if you want to ensure the course you teach [...]
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Repetition is the Father of Excellence
Posted on by Malcolm Munro.
“For a 45-minute fight, you got to train hard for 45000 minutes” Mickey Goldmill to Rocky Balboa – Rocky II Repetition is the Mother of Learning. It’s one of the most widely quoted pearls of wisdom you’ll hear and has been attributed to everyone from St. Thomas Aquinas to Russian, Greek, and even Native American [...]
