There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.

Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.

Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.