How to do more in less time
November 20, 2011
Personal productivity is more about rythym than perpetual motion. Our efficiency goes in cycles during the day. Our abilities change during the day. When are you most creative? When can you handle numbers most easily? When are you best for physical work? When are you best negotiating or meeting people? When can you most easily [...]
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November 14, 2011
Someone asked me the other day… What is a quick tool to de-stress? The best one I know is to use your peripheral vision. Let me explain. Peripheral vision is that area of vision that is outside the centre of the visual field. It is very good at detecting motion. We have all had the [...]
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November 6, 2011
Do you remember playing around with magnets and iron filings? You place the iron filings on a piece of paper and then move the magnet under the paper. All the filings line up in the magnetic field. If you move the magnet, the filings move, keeping pace with the magnet which is invisible under the [...]
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October 30, 2011
Permafrost is soil that is frozen. The top thin layer will thaw during the summer, flowers can bloom, but the underlying permafrost stays the same, year in and year out. Is your work culture like this, frozen solid? It is the climate that keeps the permafrost in place. How can you change the climate sufficiently [...]
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October 23, 2011
I saw this quote the other day, and it got me thinking… “So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.” Peter Drucker Think of the people who manage you. What do they do, or insist that you do that gets in the way of you getting your [...]
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October 16, 2011
Changing what you have, comes from changing who you are. And changing who you are comes from changing what you think. Because changing what you think, ultimately changes your words, your actions, the kind of music you listen to, the movies you watch, the places you visit, the friends you hang out with, and yes, [...]
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October 9, 2011
Long to-do lists are often a big challenge for many of us. Most people I’ve asked feel de-motivated and overwhelmed when they look at a list any longer than 10 different tasks. One of the problems with long lists, whether at home or work, is that the longer the list, the more likely we are [...]
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October 2, 2011
Steven K Scott wrote that every criticism contains water, sand and gold. The water is the ‘noise’ in the criticism – the words that carry the message but don’t say much in and of themselves. The sand is the bit that stings – the part of the criticism you find virtually impossible not to take [...]
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