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The Practice of Productivity
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Yearly Archives: 2013
“For the things…
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
I have a lot of Practice
I am about to sit down to practice the guitar. I take lessons once a week and I practice daily. I run scales, play songs from sheet music and I improvise solos over backing tracks that my teacher provided on CD or…
Tagged with: asana, Being, guitar, health, jazz, learning, play, Practice, Preparation, productivity, repetition, Yoga
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Posted in personal productivity
Mind Maps for Meeting Notes
Mind Maps are a non-linear method of capturing thoughts. They work like our minds work, in a web of interconnected thoughts, ideas, concepts. Here’s a Wiki on them if the process is new to you. They are great way to…
Tagged with: apps, cloud, iPad, mind map, MindJet, Outlook, Practice, productivity, self management, software, technology, tools
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We’re surfing not sculpting
I read something today that essentially said ‘we can’t control anything, what looks like mastery is really just cooperating with what is’. It looks like control because it is happening in real time. We are alert, aware, supple and responsive.…
Tagged with: flexibility, mastery, planning, Practice, productivity, surfing
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
We Fail to Learn
One of the fastest ways to learn is to fail. Information, instruction and feedback in the context of an experience of failure is more useful than abstractly presented curriculum in no particular context other that the learning environment itself (classroom).…
Tagged with: failure, feedback, learning, Practice, productivity, support, Yoda, Yoga
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Suffer the Fool
In literature, the Fool is the character who can tell the truth at all times. He has that freedom because his medium is humor. Add to that an acute level of self-deprecation. He doesn’t take himself too seriously, nor hold…
Tagged with: feedback support, leadership, self deprecation
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
Posted in Leadership, personal productivity
There is no Try part 2
An employee of mine once gave me a paperweight with the following question etched on it: “What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” That has been an inspiration to me.
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Chakras and Productivity
In Yoga and other practices there is a knowledge of energy systems called Chakras. I think of them as a system of reservoirs and locks that work much as a system of canals like the Panama or Suez canals. There is not…
Quote of the Day
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one…
Tagged with: Begin, boldness, commitment, inspiration, Murray personal productivity
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Posted in personal productivity, Quotes
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