Time to clear the decks and go on an adventure. Back in two weeks with my mind expanded my energy amped up and my focus back on productivity and aligning purpose to project to process.
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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Can’t See the Forest or the Trees
My basic method has to do with getting de-cluttered from the inside out, clearing out the mental overload that leads to stress and reduces productivity and going all the way through the individuals work and home environment. I help folks…
Tagged with: action, de-clutter, focus, goals, Practice, Preparation, productivity, projects, Purpose, self management, vision
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Positive Thinking – umm?
Positive thinking is like positive drinking. It can be intoxicating but don’t drive under the influence. Neutrality and outcome focus leaves us nimble, agile, flexible and ready to react to the realities we encounter between here and our goal. Negative…
Tagged with: action, flexibility, focus, goals, mental ecology, Practice, Preparation, productivity, Purpose, self management, vision
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Scarcity v Abundance
An amazing property of the qualities love and compassion is that they are not scarce. We can’t run out of them. We forget them for periods but we never have to fear that if we give them freely we may…
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Practice Quote of the Day
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.” ― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action
Tagged with: action, goals, inspiration, Practice, self management
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Mental Ecology: More Resources
Searching around the web on the topic of Mental Ecology I found a couple of useful links. One to a David Allen Article of Huffpost. It is a coincidence and not a coincidence that I am using a term from…
Tagged with: cycle of completion, de-clutter, focus, Getting Things Done, knowledge work, learning, mental ecology, Practice, productivity, Purpose, self management, tools, wellness, working memory
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Integrity – Internal Grit
Is it cheating if everyone is doing it? Is fairness just a level playing field? Are the win and profit at all costs mentality exemplified by the BioGenesis 13 and Johnny Football our new standard? In the past few weeks…
Tagged with: alignment, health, integrity, mental ecology, Purpose, self management, wellness, wisdom, zero sum
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Posted in Leadership, personal productivity, Wellness
Mental Ecology – Clarification
As I read over my post from last Thursday on the filters we need for our minds, one that lets thoughts flow through without our holding on to them and on that restricts the inane and useless thoughts that flow…
De-Cluttering Ideas
My wife and I are moving and while reading up on kitchen designs, she shared the following article on de-cluttering with me. This also dovetails with the discussion on Friday about Mental Ecology. One way to have less ‘stuff’ to…
Mental Ecology – Part 2
Common ecological practices include the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. They also include clean and renewable sources of energy such as solar, wind, geothermal and others. So in terms of our internal environment and harnessing our personal energy towards effective…
Tagged with: action, alignment, cog sci, cycle of completion, de-clutter, Ease, environment, feedback, flexibility, focus, goals, health, limiting beliefs, mental ecology, Practice, productivity, projects, resistance, self management, wellness
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