As the year starts winding down, one of the first things that start to come to people's minds is their New Year's resolutions and goals. The New Year is a time for letting things go that no longer serve you, and a time to start focusing on ways to improve your mind, body, and health. However, you don't need to wait for the New Year to start making your life better. In fact, you can start seeing self-improvement in as little as seven days. It's not about making big life changes, rather it's about making little tweaks that make your life better on the daily.

Supervisors in most fields cope with a great deal of stress. It's no help when your team is a total train-wreck. You should be able to count on your team to execute the tasks your organization requires. If your team continually falls on it's collective face, read on for some great tips on improving team productivity.

So, you're burnt out. It happens to most of us at one point or another. Long hours, strenuous projects, it all piles up and suddenly it's hard to get out of bed in the morning and feel excited to head into work. While sometimes burnout and being overworked can feel like a never-ending cycle, there are ways to get back on the top of your game.

Have you been looking for some small, easy to do things that can help you better yourself? Maybe you're already doing pretty well but you just need a little extra shine.

The chances are high that you have read articles before about healthy ways to self-improve. If you have read more than one of those such articles, a pattern probably emerged. This post is not like those others.

Whether you're a worker bee or the boss bee, everyone wants to operate at maximum productivity. Even the most successful of us would say that they need to increase work product. Time management has been a buzz phrase for a long time. If you type it into a search engine, in half a second there are over four billion results. With those kind of resources available, why are we not the most efficient people on the planet? 

We have all procrastinated at work. Usually, we just explain it away with excuses of laziness or the unpleasantness of a task. Unfortunately, procrastination is more than just a nuisance. It hampers productivity and negatively impacts our mental health. As Dr. Tim Pychyl, professor of psychology at Carleton University in Ottawa points out, procrastination is actually a failed attempt at emotional regulation. Here are five suggestions to defeat procrastination.

Since the first man, or woman, used a stone to make a chore easier, humans have been fashioning tools. And since those tools some 2.6 million years ago, according to the Smithsonian, human culture has advanced steadily. From small steps of making fire to giant leaps like the printing press and the steam engine, we have invented things to advance our civilizations.

Patrick Bet-David is a successful entrepreneur, motivational speaker and thought leader in business practices. His videos and presentations are designed to give life-lessons to burgeoning entrepreneurs in start-ups; but his lessons can be applied to any area of productivity. His enthusiasm is contagious, and listening to one of his lectures, you would never guess that his family escaped Iran years ago and settled in the United States to start a new life. Far from being discouraged by what he left behind, Patrick found a way to find the best life has to offer here and to share his secrets of success with others.

Work and working out are not often included in the same sentence. Exercise and career are usually thought of as separate activities. Physical fitness, however, can play an important role in job achievement. Here are five reasons why exercise is integral to a successful career.