Do you have lots of clutter around your office or work area? What is it? Piles of papers? Envelopes and folders? Books? Boxes? I can see two easy explanations for your clutter. 1. You don’t have enough filling, storage and…
The Practice of Productivity
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Talismans
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Please join me online today.
I will be a guest on the radio show The Conscious Consultant Hour today, June 28th at 11:00 AM EDT. Host Sam Liebowitz and I will be talking about the power of productivity skills to reduce stress and realign our…
Tagged with: alignment, Practice, productivity, Purpose, self management, stress reduction
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Clearing your mental RAM
One of my key take-aways from the David Allen Getting Things Done materials (which are the main source my foundational understanding of productivity and self-management) is that it is a waste of Psychic RAM when I have the same thoughts…
Tagged with: cycle of completion, de-clutter, Ease, focus, Getting Things Done, goals, Practice, Preparation, productivity, Purpose, self management, tools
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Cognitive RAM v ROM
Let’s use a computing analogy to flesh out the ideas, from Cognitive Science, about how we work on things mentally and how we use three interrelated tools, Working Memory, Short Term Memory and Long Term Memory to get things done.…
On Purpose
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche via Quotes About Purpose (430 quotes). In English, when we say we have done something ‘on purpose’ we mean we have done it volitionally.…
Tagged with: alignment, Choice, goals, inspiration, productivity, Purpose, self management
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Deeper connections
Most of what we think of these days as making connections seems to be in the form of Social Media. I am in that school as well, using social media such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook to establish my brand…
Tagged with: connection, Practice, productivity, Purpose, self management, synthesis
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Supermoon –
OK this is a stretch topic but here goes. This weekend will be the 2013 Supermoon. The moon will be the closest to us it will be for all of the year. It will appear huge. The image at right…
Tagged with: feedback, flexibility, focus, goals, inspiration, motivation, productivity, Purpose, resistance, self management, supermoon, vision
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Please join me
I will be a guest on the radio show The Conscious Consultant Hour next Friday, June 28th at 11:00 AM EDT. here is a link. http://www.talkingalternative.com/friday-shows/the-conscious-consultant-hour. We will be talking about the power of productivity skills to reduce stress and…
Tagged with: goals, inspiration, Practice, productivity, productivity skills, radio, self management, stress, tools, vision, wellness
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Decide – meta skill
Many of us resist deciding. There is a subtle reason. Unconsciously we fear that when we choose one option, we kill off the others. It’s wired into our linguistics. The root ‘cide’ connotes murder (suicide, genocide, pesticide, etc). We avoid…
Observing – the Key to Neutrality
We get so wrapped up in things. We feel righteous and judgmental about the many ways that ‘they’ are doing it wrong or offending us or whatever. We direct that righteous furor at ourselves and self flagellate with guilt. We can wear…
Tagged with: alignment, goals, limiting beliefs, neutrality, observing, productivity, Purpose, self management, vision
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