habits

How to Make Your New Year’s Resolutions Actually Stick

January 11, 2022 By EMI

This is a guests blog by Jese H. Vance, P.E.

Every year, many people do the exact same thing. They decide to take advantage of a fresh start by making 137 (give or take) New Year’s resolutions. After making all these resolutions, they are quickly overwhelmed, and they don’t make it more than a couple of weeks into the New Year before going off course and back to the way things were. Does this sound familiar? I have been guilty of this on multiple occasions. However, I have learned some strategies over the last several years that have helped me hit my goals that I would like to share with you.

Don’t Pile on Too Much at Once

How to Manage Multiple Projects at the Same Time

January 15, 2019 By EMI

How to Manage Multiple Projects at the Same Time is a guest blog by Alexandra Reay

In today’s world, it’s crucial to be able to manage multiple projects at the same time. New technologies are quickly developing, while companies are expanding their market reach. Businesses aim to minimize their costs and maximize their efficiency by hiring fewer, higher-standard employees. Multitasking has become the latest trend once again. This process can be challenging.

Here are some tips from my experience on how to manage multiple projects at the same time:

TECC 30: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – How to Build Willpower and Create Positive Habits that Move You Closer to Your Engineering Goals with Leo Gura

October 7, 2014 By EMI

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In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to provide you with specific steps for building your willpower and creating positive habits with my guest Leo Gura, who is a personal development expert and has over 200 videos on YouTube.

“When you control your thoughts, you control your mind. When you control your mind, you control your life. And once you’re in the state of being in total control of your life, you become the master of your destiny.” – Robin Sharma, from The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

The Take Action Today segment of the show will help you to convince yourself to start making changes in your life to build strong willpower.

In today’s show, I interview Leo Gura of Actualized.org. He has posted hundreds of videos on personal development topics. He struggled earlier on in his life, which led him to read hundreds of personal development books and spend over a hundred thousand dollars on personal development materials. He has taken the information from these materials, improved his behavioral patterns, and put all his results into his videos.

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TECC 026: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – A Five-Step Process for Overcoming Your Addiction to E-mail

August 26, 2014 By EMI

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In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I provide the five-step process that I have utilized to overcome my addiction to e-mail in hopes that you can do the same.

E-mail is a valuable method of communication, but it is also dangerous; it can seriously hamper our productivity, especially if we live in our inboxes, like I did. In this session, I will outline in detail how I overcame my e-mail addiction for those of you who want to do the same and increase your productivity.

“Email is familiar. It’s comfortable. It’s easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.” – Ryan Holmes