I love gadgets and gear. I love leather notebooks, specialized note pads and calendars. I love aluminum and matte black metal and every form of iThing ever conceived. I took my first really impactful time management course in 1988. Part…
The Practice of Productivity
Aligning purpose, goals and action through heart centered self management
Monthly Archives: July 2013
The tools are not the practice
Tagged with: action, Apple Newton, apps, de-clutter, focus, goals, iPad, OmniFocus, Outlook, Palm Pilot, personal coaching, Practice, productivity, productivity methods, projects, self management, software, technology, Time Design, time management, tools
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Project management v. Project focus
Project management is the classical GANTT charting, dependency coordinating, resource leveling activities of getting a project done. Project focus is having a clear picture of all of your committed outcomes so that at any moment you can be fully engaged…
Tagged with: focus, personal productivity, Practice, Project management, self management
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Posted in personal productivity
Google Journal and 100DS
I found the above and was intrigued. Run yourself through the slide show. I am not sure I agree with the methodology, but I am going to challenge myself to try it out and report on my experience here on…
Tagged with: action, cycle of completion, focus, goals, mind map, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management, tools
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Persistence
Constant dripping wears off a stone – Ken Matsuzaki I just read a short piece in the current New Yorker Magazine about Tokyo resident and Cardozo Law School grad Ken Matsuzaki. He finally passed the NYS Bar exam after taking it…
Tagged with: action, cycle of completion, focus, microscopic change, patience, persistence, Practice, projects, Purpose, self management
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Quote of the Day
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. – the Dalai Lama Action follows thought. Remember my earlier posts about vectors and influence. Our vision is the guidance system for our actions. But it’s not…
Tagged with: action, alignment, focus, goals, inspiration, productivity, self management, vision
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The win at all costs culture
Performance enhancement. It’s all over the sports pages, it dominated the business news during the credit default crisis, it fills your email spam folder. So we could take the conversation in a lot of directions. Is it a predominantly male…
Tagged with: alignment, dovetailed outcomes, flexibility, goals, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Make it your own.
My wife and I are doing a renovation project on our kitchen. So many lessons of this home project are applicable to my work projects. Having a vision of the outcome is critical, of course. Here is another. To make…
Tagged with: alignment, focus, leadership, Practice, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management, software, technology, tools, vision
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Treating the symptoms
I have had a variety of intestinal ailments for more than thirty years. In the last two weeks, I have had some nasty symptoms. My response has largely been in the area of treating just the symptoms and not really…
Tagged with: alignment, health, intestinal ailments, learning, long term solution, microscopic change, Practice, resistance, self management, wellness
Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Posted in personal productivity, Wellness
Where are your ‘dead shark’ projects
We all have projects that have stopped moving. The key is to acknowledge that fact and then either get the projects moving or declare them complete and move on. Declaring the project done is more valuable for freeing up our…
Tagged with: cycle of completion, de-clutter, productivity, projects, self management
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Yoga for coders
I like this article and it applies to everyone not just coders article on Fast Company site Particularly the comment that our minds lie but our body never lies. The tension we hold, the way we hold our breath, the…
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