by Deanna Maio | Jan 17, 2026 | Building & Leading Your Team, Goals & Motivation
When you are making a proposal for a plan or an idea to your team, where do you lose your audience? If you encounter resistance during the presentation, then something has gone wrong somewhere. We are not talking about questions being asked but a sterner opposition....
by Deanna Maio | Jan 14, 2026 | Goals & Motivation
Burnout can often come when you are so overwhelmed with information, possibilities, reasons and ideas that you have no idea where to go next. It’s like planning a vacation, but you’re not sure where you want to go, when you want to leave or return, how you...
by Deanna Maio | Jan 13, 2026 | Goals & Motivation, Productivity & Time Management
So you feel like you’re making progress, and you regularly take breaks to let your batteries recharge, but you still feel a general malaise and a lack of motivation. What gives? The answer may lie in your end goal. You may think, “I know why I’m working...
by Deanna Maio | Jan 13, 2026 | Goals & Motivation
Last week I started a 5 part series on Burnout and how to avoid it or stop it in its tracks…Here’s part 2 Burnout Cause #2: Lack of Progress There’s a reason that a hamster running on a wheel inside a mesh cage has become western civilization’s...
by Deanna Maio | Jan 12, 2026 | Goals & Motivation, Productivity & Time Management
By this point, you’ve read a lot of causes of burnout and many suggestions for combatting it. Are you still wondering why you get a headache every time you think about working on your goal? Sometimes our goals seem fine. They’re measurable, we put a...
by Deanna Maio | Jan 11, 2026 | Goals & Motivation, Productivity & Time Management
shoothead / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-NDWhat Is Burnout and Why Is It Bad? Burnout is like pornography; you may not be able to define it, but you definitely know it when you see it – or feel it! It’s that general malaise that has you pulling the covers over your head...
