Multi-tasking can kill your productivity up to 40%! This week I learned that the hard way. Let me show you how to be more productive and single-task with research based tips...you get four! And let my disgusting mistake be enough to inspire you to revel in the moment and stay presently engaged in one thing at a time.

https://youtu.be/aiXflSLWUUw

Inspiration sneaks up on us, and, like lightning, like a lightbulb, like a dream, like an anvil, like a summer rain shower, it awakens us to some new possibility and galvanizes us into action. Well, some of us, at least. And, while you may not be able to club inspiration into submission, there are insights to be gleaned from those of us who easily experience inspiration.

We were excited and grateful to speak to Sonja Lyubomirsky, PhD - she's a groundbreaking researcher on happiness and one of the leaders of positive psychology.

Sometimes we get stuck. Our creativity seems to have disappeared, or we stay in job that's not working, a relationship that should be over, or we just keep banging our heads against the wall hoping that something will change but feeling the doom of no-way-out.