In these kinds of times, that’s actually in retrospect when we find out we’ve learned how to grow. We’ve expanded. We’ve stretched ourselves. We’ve challenged ourselves, we’ve had to look at things from whole new perspectives. Subscribe or Download...
Out of the box here… I Am Unreasonably Joyful. That’s an affirmation I’ve actually used for many many years. And when I heard it, or when I thought of it, I thought, what a cool thing to do. To just take me out of the box. I’m unreasonably joyful. Subscribe or...
The Two Minute Tool basically says, look, any action you’ve figured out that you could actually complete within two minutes, of where you are in the context you are, in the location you are, you’re better off to that right then than to hang up on it, not do it,...
Now if you haven’t done this already, and you have some down time, or at home time, or whatever. Then, come on guys, it’s like when you get your car washed, or your motorcycle washed, or whatever, it drives better. Well very much the same thing with your computer....
Revisit or create an overview of your Areas of Focus, Responsibility, and Interests. It’s a different horizon of your commitments. You’ve got actions you need to take, and you’ve got projects you need to finish. But the reason you have actions, and projects is because...
What I mean by that is, your workspace. Where when you sit down, you are ready to fly, you’re ready to go. You don’t have to rearrange anything in order to be able to do your best work. There’s mine, it’s been quite functional for several years, something like this....
So this is a cautionary tale. There are times when one situation, project, or circumstance that’s particularly important to you, you’re not appropriately engaged with yet can color the whole rest of your life, and make it all feel grey, and solemn, and burdensome....
See a lot of what the Getting Things Done methodology is about has been about inventorying what your commitments are. What have you agreed with yourself you need, would, could, should, ought to be doing, handling or whatever. And so managing those commitments is a...
Who do you owe a thank you to? Who do you owe a communication with to update them? All the best things in my life have actually come from relationships that I’ve had. Surprising serendipitous stuff. But as a bit of an introvert — I actually am — I often times have to...
Many of my tips are about sort of catching up, and simple things to do kind of keep your energy up, clean things up, catch up. This one is a big one. What circumstance, situation that you’re in right now, if that were put onto cruise control, or if you were...
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